thanks for the response. Just to clarify, for the make.fail, I would type in:
make>>make.fail 2>&1 which tells it make and then to send (>) stderr (2) to stdout (1) and also to send stdout that way also (&1). finally all of that gets sent to a file named make.fail . Isn't '>>' actually 'append' whereas '>' would work just as well so long as the file didn't already exist? If the file did exist would I get an error or would the file be overwritten? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Emanuele Rusconi <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21 August 2014 19:29, Michael Havens <[email protected]> wrote: > > [...] > > make>>make.fail > > make check>>check.fail > > [...] > > cat make.fail|grep -i fail > > cat check.fail|grep -i fail > > cat install.fail|grep -i fail > > [...] > > [...] none of the logs I created contain neither error nor fail > > Side note: the "cat" are redundant, you can "grep -i fail make.fail". > Or, you can use a cat to send them all to a single grep: > cat make.fail check.fail install.fail | grep -i fail > > More importantly: the redirections ">" and ">>" will redirect stdout only, > anything that goes to stderr (errors, maybe?) will get lost. > > You can use "&>>make.fail" or (equivalent) ">>make.fail 2>&1" to redirect > both. > > -- Emanuele > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
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