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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:46:35 -0700
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th>,
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Subject: Re: I/O redirection in tcsh
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* Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> [001018 03:48] wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 04:42:07PM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote:
> > I can't figure out from the man page how to redirect STDERR to STDIN so
> > error messages will be logged while I'm running a job in the background. In
> > bash I could just add '2>&1' in the command line, but tcsh calls that
> > 'ambiguous redirection' and refuses to run the command. I tried just '>&',
> > but that didn't work, either. What's the proper command?
> 
> tcsh (and csh, for that matter) is known for it's lack of
> file-descriptor manipulation in the prompt.  You can do limited stuff like:
> 
>     % ./program >& program.stderr.log &
> 
> which will redirect only stderr of ./program in program.stderr.log, but
> I don't know of a way to redirect file descriptor 2 to where 1 points at
> that point.
> 
> I tend to use too many times the following trick:
> 
>     % /bin/sh -c './program 2>&1 > error.log &'

Try this:

(myprog >& /dev/stdout) > outfile

-Alfred


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