From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 21 17:40:34 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 997B116A41A for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:40:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EBDA13C465 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:40:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lBLHeP9B063766; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:40:25 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20071221113910.024c7c28@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:40:17 -0600 To: jhall@vandaliamo.net From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <49355.65.117.48.155.1198257129.squirrel@admintool.trueband .net> References: <51935.12.170.206.13.1198248568.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20071221085433.024e15c0@mail.computinginnovations.com> <49355.65.117.48.155.1198257129.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 17:40:34 -0000 At 11:12 AM 12/21/2007, jhall@vandaliamo.net wrote: > > 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 tar is a bit different in the syntax, this seems to work: tar -f /root.tgz -cvz /root >/home/jay/tarlog 2>&1 -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.