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Old 08-24-2018, 07:30 AM   #6
plo233
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
That's a failure in the worldcat service used to lookup the earliest edition of the book. Failuresa re written to stderr and output to stdout. They dont corrupt each other unless you have to directed to the same place. For example, use

fetch-ebook-metadata whatever 2> /dev/null

will redirect stderr to null hiding the error message (the above assumes you are on a unix OS)
Thanks! I was accidentally redirecting stderr early in my script and didn't realize. Still don't know why I'm getting these failures for the first time in years on 2 installations and 3 IPs but no longer an issue.
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