Re: sed "Hello, world!" program?

               
> On 2014-02-21 22:18, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
 >> What if some sed versions have a --version that writes to stderr
 >> rather than stdout?  In fact it is not a standard option, and an
 >> unrecognized option would write a message to stderr, not stdout.
 >> So you need a 2>
>  
>  which doesn't work under cmd.exe :-)
>  
>  whereas just about every shell, whether command.com, cmd.exe, bash,
>  sh, tcsh, csh, zsh, dash, etc... they all support echo, so I
>  opted to go cross-platform. :-)
>  
>  -tkc
>

Why do you think the stream redirection 2>&1 does not work under cmd.exe?

L.