Pipe only stderr....

(No, not stdout AND stderr)...

This is a pipe dream... even the *nix shells don't seem to have it.

Too many console apps want to use curses or other random ass code that can't handle stdout being redirected - yet provide data on stderr.

I wish I could pipe ONLY stderr. Or (even better for my usage) capture only stderr to a variable with some new param-kludge to %@exec*.

I have no real suggestion on the syntax since |&| looks kind of crazy - but... I guess it would be unambiguous.

Yes -...

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