Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:58:59 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Stefan Miklosovic <miklosovic.freebsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error output redirection Message-ID: <20091011235859.69bb0a08.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <f99a79ec0910111436g62b93acfg873771c04b6b9b1e@mail.gmail.com> References: <f99a79ec0910111436g62b93acfg873771c04b6b9b1e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:36:52 +0200, Stefan Miklosovic <miklosovic.freebsd@gmail.com> wrote: > hi list, > > if error output of some program appear on screen, > it is possible to print it also to some file simultaneously ? > > e.g > if I "cat" file which do not exist, error is on screen, > I want to add that error to some file (errors.txt) See "man sh" (or "man bash" if you use it): The redirection could be this: $ cat nonexist.txt > error.txt 2>&1 The C shell has a different syntax: % cat nonexist.txt >& error.txt I hope that's what you have requested. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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