A young broke me once spent 3 weeks after school each day in 1994 downloading slackware floppy images from my Dad’s AOL account via modem so I could try it on my 386.
cat sends its error via stderr so it won’t go into the pipe (or grep). you will see the cat error on your terminal, unless you have redirected stderr to stdout
A young broke me once spent 3 weeks after school each day in 1994 downloading slackware floppy images from my Dad’s AOL account via modem so I could try it on my 386.