how to redirect verbose to file?

Dave Ihnat dihnat at dminet.com
Thu Apr 29 01:23:17 UTC 2010


On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:59:45AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> Then it is excessive. Drop the "2>&1" and it should _still_ work.
> As mentioned earlier, this incantation is backwards. Redirections are
> applied left to right, so "2>&1" probably changes nothing.

Hm.  Actually, this is very common in Unix/Linux; it indicates
redirecting the error stream into the stdout stream.  If the messages
are being generated on the stdout stream, you're right.

Cheers,
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	Dave Ihnat
	dihnat at dminet.com




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