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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 09:13:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu>
Subject: Re: Redirecting "make world" Output
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To: Martijn Koster <mak@webcrawler.com>
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On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Martijn Koster wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 07:37:46AM -0400, Greg Pavelcak wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I believe the upgrade tutorial says you can save the info output of
> > make world by redirecting like this (using sh as shell):
> > 
> > 	make world 2>&1 | tee /var/tmp/mw.out
> > 
> > I saw this 2>&1 construction in the sh man pages but I don't
> > understand it.
> 
> it just means fold stderr and stdout into a single stream.
> 
> > Anyway, the immediate problem is that I get an error
> > when I write this. I think it said "ambiguous redirection"
> > unfortunately I don't have it with me now.
> 
> Are you absolutely sure you where using sh? That sounds distinctly
> like a csh error.
> 
> -- Martijn Koster, m.koster@pobox.com
> 
You're probably right. My default shell is csh. When I do "shutdown
now" it says something like "enter shell or press return for sh" but
here I guess "sh" means whatever shell you happened to be in when you
did "shutdown now"? I'll have to try the csh construct for redirecting
and see what happens.

Thanks.

Greg