Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:56:00 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: jhall@vandaliamo.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Redirecting STDOUT Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20071221085433.024e15c0@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <51935.12.170.206.13.1198248568.squirrel@admintool.trueband .net> References: <51935.12.170.206.13.1198248568.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net>
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At 08:49 AM 12/21/2007, jhall@vandaliamo.net wrote:
>I am in the process of debugging a script and I would like to have the
>output of stdout redirected to a file.
>
>After reading about redirection on the Internet, I was under the
>impression the following would redirect stdout to a file, but I cannot
>seem to get it to work.
>
>tar -cvzf root.tgz /root > /dev/null 2>/home/jay/tarlog
>
>I'm sure it is something simple I am doing wrong, but I am not seeing it.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Jay
In your command line above you are redirecting stdout to /dev/null and
stderr to your file.
try:
tar -cvzf root.tgz /root > /home/jay/tarlog 2>&1
-Derek
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