Subject: Re: redirecting error messages
To: Steve Revilak <revilak@umbsky.cc.umb.edu>
From: Dave Schmitt <dschmi1@umbc.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/28/1999 10:56:19
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Steve Revilak wrote:
> If you're using a C-shell variant, then
>
> command >& filename.txt (overwrites filename.txt)
> or
>
> command >>& filename.txt (appends to filename.txt)
>
> The ampersand causes the redirection of stderr and stdout to the same
> file -- unlike sh, it can't send them to two different places.
Actually it can, but the syntax is horrible:
(command > output.txt) >& error.txt
Again, >> and >>& would append instead of overwrite...
--
Dave Schmitt <dschmi1@umbc.edu>