README.md

Goal

I'm attempting to redirect stdout to stderr, and vice versa, stderr to stdout.

Unfortunately, the following code does not work:

command 1>&2 2>&1

See the following question for more details:

• StackOverflow: How do I redirect 'stdout' to 'stderr' and 'stderr' to 'stdout'?

Instructions

Run the script named start-server.sh, making sure you are in the project directory. It will compile stdout-test.cpp according to your machine's specs, and then run it as a TCP service locally on port 9998 (this can be changed). To connect to it, run the following command:

$ nc 127.0.0.1 9998

The requirements are:

• bash (duh)
• g++ (for compiling stdout-test.cpp)
• tcpserver (available in the ucspi-tcp package)

All of this should be in both the Ubuntu and Debian repositories.