From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 28 15: 8:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90B661554C for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 15:08:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA02361 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 00:08:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 00:08:29 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199912282308.AAA02361@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why this line never returns "2>&1" ? [Sorry Rephrasing the question] Organization: Administration TU Clausthal Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message