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When using Bun.spawn(), the child process inherits the stderr of the spawning process. If instead you’d prefer to read and handle stderr, set the stderr option to "pipe".

const proc = Bun.spawn(["echo", "hello"], {
  stderr: "pipe",
});

proc.stderr; // => ReadableStream

To read stderr until the child process exits, use .text()

const proc = Bun.spawn(["echo", "hello"], {
  stderr: "pipe",
});

const errors: string = await proc.stderr.text();
if (errors) {
  // handle errors
}

See Docs > API > Child processes for complete documentation.

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