Shell : quick newb question - redirecting to file
Colin Watson
cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Tue Jul 12 13:23:08 UTC 2005
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 03:43:54PM +0300, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 12:34 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > If you want to redirect both stdout and stderr to a file, use this
> > instead:
> >
> > programName >outputFile 2>&1
>
> Or a special "short cut" that do the same thing as above:
> programName &>outputFile
Yes, but beware that that doesn't work in all POSIX shells (so you can
rely on it if you're using bash, but not if you're writing /bin/sh
scripts).
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
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