Christian Lavoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CL> I need to write down the output (actually, I need the error CL> message) that the startx command gives me. (The nice 'startx >err' CL> doesn't work...)
There are two places program output can go: "standard output" and "standard error". 'cmd >file' only sends standard output to file; standard error still gets displayed on the console. In a Bourne-compatible shell (ash/bash/ksh/zsh), you can do 'cmd 2>file' to send standard error (only) to file, 'cmd >&file' to send both standard out and standard error to file, 'cmd 2>&1' to send standard error to the same place as standard output, 'cmd 2>&1 |less' to send that output through less, etc. csh/tcsh are less powerful/flexible/forgiving here. -- _____________________________ / \ "Dad was reading a book called | David Maze | _Schroedinger's Kittens_. Asexual | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | reproduction? Only one cat is in the box." | http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ | -- Abra Mitchell \_____________________________/
