From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 21 17:12:16 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5633B16A417 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:12:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhall@vandaliamo.net) Received: from trueband.net (director.trueband.net [216.163.120.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E948E13C447 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:12:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhall@vandaliamo.net) Received: (qmail 23226 invoked by uid 1006); 21 Dec 2007 17:12:11 -0000 Received: from jhall@vandaliamo.net by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 3.1.4. Clear:SA:0(-1.4/100.0):. Processed in 1.70466 secs); 21 Dec 2007 17:12:11 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=100.0 X-Spam-Level: Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (172.16.0.21) by -v with SMTP; 21 Dec 2007 17:12:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 19555 invoked from network); 21 Dec 2007 17:12:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO admintool.trueband.net) (127.0.0.1) by -v with SMTP; 21 Dec 2007 17:12:09 -0000 Received: from 65.117.48.155 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jhall@vandaliamo.net) by admintool.trueband.net with HTTP; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:12:09 -0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <49355.65.117.48.155.1198257129.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20071221085433.024e15c0@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <51935.12.170.206.13.1198248568.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20071221085433.024e15c0@mail.computinginnovations.com> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:12:09 -0000 (GMT) From: jhall@vandaliamo.net To: "Derek Ragona" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: jhall@vandaliamo.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Redirecting STDOUT X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:12:16 -0000 > 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 > When I run the above, I receive the following message. Ambiguous output redirect. Any suggestions? What I found Googling on the message indicates I am trying to write the output to multiple locations. I am using the bourne shell. I am using the right syntax? Thanks, Jay