Thanks. Looks like a good place to start.
I have a few questions below ....
On Sunday 27 August 2006 18:03, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Aharon Schkolnik wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I need a wrapper for cron jobs that will only send me stdout and stderr
> > if the job failed.
> >
> > I once had a wrapper like this, but I lost it, and can't find it with
> > google.
> >
> > Anyone have one l laying around ?
> >
> > TIA.
>
> I'm programming this into the mail, so totally untested:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> OUTFILE=`mktmp -t quiet.XXXXXXX`
>
Woudn't it be better to redirect both stdout and stderr to the same file, in
order to maintain the chronological relationship between them ?
> if ! "$@" >$OUTFILE.out 2>$OUTFILE.err
> then
> cat $OUTFILE.out
If I understand this correctly, you are redirecting the stderr from the cat
command to its stdout. Is that correct, and what you meant ?
Maybe you meant to redirect the stdout to stderr ?
cat $OUTFILE.err >&2
> cat $OUTFILE.err 2>&1
> fi
>
> rm $OUTFILE.{out,err}
>
>
> Enjoy
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