On 11/14/06, Geir A. Myrestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sarah Reichelt wrote:
>
> Here is my way around this problem. The example below is for a "ping"
> command, but I'm sure you can adapt it to your stuff.
>
> As you can see, I direct the output of the shell command to a
> temporary text file. The second part of the shell command containing
> the "2>&1 &" is the relevant section. I don't understand it but it
> works :-)
2>&1 means that you want anything sent to stderr (2) redirected to
stdout (1), meaning that stdout now will be both stdout and stderr.
The trailing & simply means that you want to run it in the background,
and you're then free to run other commands while this command is running
in the background.
Thanks Geir, I think I get it now, but I keep it in my scrapbook,
because I would never remember it.
Cheers,
Sarah
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