Question

Is this line the best way to print out an error message in Bash?

echo 'Error: banana' >&2

I need to update tens of Bash scripts which use all different ways of logging errors and I might as well choose the “right” way to do this and adhere to a standard as I do it…

Answer 1

On linux, I’d prefer to say

echo "Some error message" >> /dev/stderr

This will effectively do the same, of course, since /dev/stderr symlinks to /proc/$PID/fd/2