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Subject: Re: Capturing tar output
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no space between 2 and >

with space you started
/usr/local/gtar/bin/tar -cvf - /home/hallja 2

and redirected stdout to /var/log/test.txt

while trying to pipe the output too to gpg


On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, jhall@vandaliamo.net wrote:

>>
>> redirect stderr with "2>" operator
>>
> Using the following command,
> # /usr/local/gtar/bin/tar -cvf - /home/hallja 2 > /var/log/test.txt |
> /usr/local/bin/gpg --encrypt "recipient" | dd of=/dev/nsa0 obs=128k
>
> I receive an error meesage stating, "Ambiguous output redirect."
>
> Any additional suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks for all your help.
>
>
> Jay
>
>