how to redirect verbose to file?
Phil Peart
wizman2007 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 29 10:18:49 UTC 2010
Have you tried using the tee command? Pipe your output into tee...
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On Apr 29, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
> On 28Apr2010 15:55, m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> | Anne wrote:
> | > I'm struggling with this problem. I have a cron job that runs
> down a list
> | > of files being backed up. It's called "bp_backupme.pl". As it's
> backing up,
> | > (in verbose -v mode), it outputs a list of files being backed up.
> | >
> | > Does anyone know how I would redirect that files output into a
> file? (I
> | > tried the >> filename.xt or >filename.txt, but it doesn't work.)
> | >
> | > The script runs like this: /opt/bp_backupme.pl -v
> | >
> | > I tried the: /opt/bp_backupme.pl -v > filename.txt
> | >
> | > But, it just errors out. If I just run the script normally,
> everything
> | > runs smoothly and it lists the files on the screen.
> | >
> | > Any idea how to grab that file list into a file?
> |
> | Yep. It's being written to STDERR, not STDOUT. To get that, use
> | /opt/bp_backupme.pl -v > filename.txt 2>&1
>
> Or just a plain:
>
> 2>filename.txt
>
> withoput mucking with stdout at all.
>
> Cheers,
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