From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 28 12: 2:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web121.yahoomail.com (web121.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 16FD414E6D for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 12:02:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from osiris2002@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 10499 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Dec 1999 20:02:14 -0000 Message-ID: <19991228200214.10498.qmail@web121.yahoomail.com> Received: from [168.187.17.44] by web121.yahoomail.com; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 12:02:14 PST Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 12:02:14 -0800 (PST) From: Joss Roots Subject: how to redirect output to a file, and then tail it ? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi there, this have been mentioned before somewhere but I seem to have lost it. if I want to send the output of an operation like 'make world' to a file > makeworld.log then be able to tail makeworld.log to see what is happening there, what is the operand or directive to use I think something like 2>1 & not sure of the exact way though, any help ? thanks ===== MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message