quoted print?

[Julian Field]

I've tried that. Zero-length file.

#!/bin/sh

echo This is a script

exec 2>&1 | tee script.out

echo This is line 1
ls
ypmatch wibble ecsinfo # This will produce stderr output
echo This is the end.


On 9/11/04 11:18 am, "Richard Brown" <mynamewasgone at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:21:45 +0000, Julian Field
> <mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Any idea how to do this? My sh isn't good enough. I can redirect the stderr
>> of the script to its stdout with "exec 2>&1", but how do I redirect the
>> stdout through "tee" which is presumably what I need to do to get the output
>> into a file as well as on the terminal. "exec |tee file.out" is obviously
>> not right.
>
> Put them together
>
> exec 2>&1 | tee file.out
>
> 2>&1 redirects stderr to stdout, then the pipe redirects stdout, which
> now also includes stderr

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