BASh help

[Andy Green]

Somebody in the thread at some point said:

> does an 'ls' on each one.  The problem is, I /want/ the script to NOT
> find those files, i.e., those files shouldn't be there.  That part
> works, but I can't dump the output of that into a text file.

It's because the error text is going out on stderr, or file handle 2.
You can redirect just file handle 2 stuff (and not the normal stdout
stuff) like this

ls nosuchfile 2>testfile.txt

-Andy