Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:12:09 -0000 (GMT) From: jhall@vandaliamo.net To: "Derek Ragona" <derek@computinginnovations.com> Cc: jhall@vandaliamo.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Redirecting STDOUT 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>
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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 > 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
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