From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 01:41:13 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 928941065671 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:41:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhall@vandaliamo.net) Received: from trueband.net (director.trueband.net [216.163.120.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22ECD8FC0A for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:41:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhall@vandaliamo.net) Received: (qmail 12578 invoked by uid 1006); 11 Sep 2008 01:41:11 -0000 Received: from jhall@vandaliamo.net by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 3.1.4. Clear:SA:0(-1.4/100.0):. Processed in 0.179906 secs); 11 Sep 2008 01:41:11 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=100.0 X-Spam-Level: Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (172.16.0.21) by -v with SMTP; 11 Sep 2008 01:41:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 32394 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2008 01:41:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO admintool.trueband.net) (127.0.0.1) by -v with SMTP; 11 Sep 2008 01:41:11 -0000 Received: from 66.84.183.146 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jhall@vandaliamo.net) by admintool.trueband.net with HTTP; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:41:11 -0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <50349.66.84.183.146.1221097271.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> In-Reply-To: <20080910211651.Q48125@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <53798.66.84.183.146.1221048972.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> <20080910211651.Q48125@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:41:11 -0000 (GMT) From: jhall@vandaliamo.net To: "Wojciech Puchar" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: jhall@vandaliamo.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Capturing tar output X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:41:13 -0000 > > redirect stderr with "2>" operator > Using the following command, # /usr/local/gtar/bin/tar -cvf - /home/hallja 2 > /var/log/test.txt | /usr/local/bin/gpg --encrypt "recipient" | dd of=/dev/nsa0 obs=128k I receive an error meesage stating, "Ambiguous output redirect." Any additional suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks for all your help. Jay