Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 00:08:29 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why this line never returns "2>&1" ? [Sorry Rephrasing the question] Message-ID: <199912282308.AAA02361@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Joss Roots wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> do something here ... <-- ok of course
> cvsup -g ports.sup > mylog 2>&1 | tail -F mylog
> do somthing here.... <-- this is nevern reached
You don't want "tail", you want "tee". You seem to confuse the
purpose of these two utilities. Here's my suggestion:
do something here ...
cvsup -g ports.sup 2>&1 | tee mylog
do something here ...
Regards
Oliver
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