Confused about redirecting stderr

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grc

GRC(1)							      General Commands Manual							    GRC(1)

NAME

       grc - frontend for generic colouriser grcat(1)

SYNOPSIS

       grc [options] command [args]

DESCRIPTION

       grc  will  execute  command  command  with optional parameters [args] piping its stdout or stderr into grcat, with apropriate configuration
       file.

       Configuration file for grc is determined by /etc/grc.conf file.

       Format of /etc/grc.conf: each entry consists of 2 lines, between entries there can be any number of empty lines or lines beginning  with  #
       (comments)

       First line is regular expression, second line the name of configuration file for grcat.

       Configuration file after the first regular expression matching command [args] will be passed to grcat as its configuration file

OPTIONS

       --help Show summary of options.

       --version
	      Display version.

       -e --stderr
	      Redirect error output. Unless -s is selected as well, this cancels redirection of standard output via grcat

       -s --stdout
	      Redirect standard output. Used to redirect standard output together with --stderr option.

       --colour=x
	      x is one of on off auto

	      --colour=on will colourise (default)

	      --colour=off will just execute command without colourising.

	      --colour=auto will test if standard output is a tty, and colourise only when it is.

SEE ALSO

       grcat(1)

AUTHOR

       Written by Radovan Garabik <garabik @ kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk>

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