Alan, Thank you for your help.
Sorry to bother you with such a trivial "problem". I'm still learning "unix" after all these years. Sigh. Have a GREAT weekend and, again, Thanks. George... On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Alan Curry <[email protected]> wrote: > George Goffe writes: > > Alan, > > > > Oops. I goofed... My apologies. > > > > The example would be this "somescript | tee somescript.log 2>&1". > > > > The intent is to capture all the output (stdout and stderr) from > > "somescript". "somescript" runs several commands that may or may not > utilize > > other FDs. I was hoping to get a better output than what you might get > from > > the script command which records all the messages + a ton of other things > > like escapes which are a pain to eliminate. > > > > Does this make better sense? > > Well, you still have the 2>&1 in the wrong place. If you want it to affect > the stderr of the command to the left of the pipe, you have to put it to > the > left of the pipe. > >
