On Wed, 10 May 2006 13:17:21 -0500 Mark Rolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Luke Bakken wrote: > >> cmd1 2>&1 >$WHERE > > > > This doesn't do what you think it does, which I'm assuming is redirect > > stderr and stdout to $WHERE. > > > > What does it do? I was of the belief that it is indeed doing the above, > and the log/scratch files I redirect to have always seemed to back that > up, showing both stdout- and stderr-looking output. Are you sure about that? $ cat foo 2>&1 > asd cat: foo: No such file or directory $ cat asd $ Doesn't look like stderr is getting redirected to the file. > know, and if there's something wrong with doing "2>&1 >" then what is > the correct method? "> file 2>&1" is the correct method. $ cat foo > asd 2>&1 $ cat foo cat: foo: No such file or directory $ The shell reads args left to right. So "2>&1 >file" means you redirect stderr to stdout, but they are already both your term, so it doesn't do anything. Then after that you redirect stdout into a file, and stderr is still to your term. Adam
