On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Andrew Sackville-West
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:08:47PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote:
>  >
>  > Luis Maceira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How can I see all the messages 
> generated by
>  > a bash command (configure make make install,
>  > for example) to standard output(computer screen),
>  > and at the same time make sure that all is
>  > written to a text file for later analysis.
>  > It is a redirection but I donĀ“t know how to make
>  > both things happen at the same time.
>  > Is that possible?With all the bash commands?
>  >
>  > Without GUI(X),all command line environment.
>  >
>  > I would try
>  >
>  > some command && some command > some file
>
>  I believe that will only put the second command into the file, the
>  first will still go to the screen. And that only puts stdin in the
>  file, you'd likely want to redirect stderr as well.
Just to offer suggestion on this one, you can put brackets:
(command1 && command2) > filename

To redirect stderr as well
(command1 && command2) > filename 2>&1

Chris

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