Thanks. I've always been a little fuzzy on that whole 2>&1 business, as I
use it so rarely.
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James,
That doesn't work. Why? First, the shell redirects STDERR to *the current
STDOUT destination*, you then redirect STDOUT. Try:
tar -cvzf $HOME/hawkweb.tar /it >/u/sy4080/tarmessages.txt 2>&1
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Melin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 3:17 PM
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> Subject: Brain fart - redirect stderr/std out to a file and
> NOT see anything after a command is run
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> I am trying to re-direct output from tar - the whole list of
> what it's
> archiving to a file so I don't see it on my terminal session.
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> I've tried variations of tar -cvzf $HOME/hawkweb.tar /it &2>1
> /u/sy4080/tarmessages.txt but I still get teh huge spew and
> nothing in
> the file. What did I not remember?
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