From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!alb Newsgroups: net.lang.c Title: Re: redirecting C error messages Article-I.D.: alice.1504 Posted: Wed Feb 16 14:36:51 1983 Received: Mon Feb 21 07:59:48 1983 References: spanky.209 That's because cc prints its error messages on stderr, nor stdout. Say: cc * 2>file to redirect them. This also means you have to say: cc * 2>&1 | error to pipe them into error (for example)