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If you want to tail the errors on another terminal, just push them to a fifo:
On your other terminal:
$ mkfifo cmderror
$ mycommand 2> cmderror
On your other terminal:
$ tail -f cmderror
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$ cat cmderror
in the other terminal is more reliable than tail.