FWD: creating logfile (shell command)

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René L. Reingard wrote:

>
> also this question, i would like to ask again.
> thanks to the experts.
> René
>
> hello shell experts
> if this is a parameter for getting a Logfile created (software name is
> bdc), then how to put it into a working command ($ bdc --log ?????).
> i had some tries but did not got it.
>
I may be misreading the question but this sounds like simple shell 
redirects. If you want to log the output of the bdc command then run:

bdc >& yourlog.log

The ">&" syntax tells the shell to redirect stdout and stderr from bdc 
to yourlog.log. Use ">" for stdout only.

If you want to see the output to the terminal as well as to a log file 
use tee:

bdc 2>&1 | tee yourlog.log

The "2>&1" tells the shell to redirect stderr (2) to the same streams as 
stdout (1). The "|" syntax tells the shell to redirect the stdout to the 
tee command.

Look for redirect in the bash man page.

If the command bdc has a --log option then just ignore.

Tory