Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 14:23:03 -0800 From: "Robert A Clarks" <raclark@regence.com> To: Joss Roots <osiris2002@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why this line never returns "2>&1" ? Message-ID: <88256855.007B140D.00@notes.or.regence.com>
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the first part of the command doesn't do any output, so tail is waiting forever for input You may want to do cvsup -g ports.sup > mylog 2>&1 ; tail -F mylog or cvsup -g ports.sup 2>&1 | tee mylog | tail -F [RC] From: Joss Roots <osiris2002@yahoo.com> on 12/28/99 02:08 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: (bcc: Robert A Clarks/BCBSO/TBG) Subject: Why this line never returns "2>&1" ? hi there, thanks for all the people who helped me finish my shell script. but one thing though, this line waits forever and never seem to give control back to its shell script to finsh the rest of the magic, do something here ... <-- ok of course cvsup -g ports.sup > mylog 2>&1 | tail -F mylog do somthing here.... <-- this is nevern reached thanks again for helping. ===== 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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