Re: weird getlist behaviour
Forgive me if this is either obvious or wrong, but I would assume you're
looking for:
getlist -h <newsserver> active > foo
since the options (-h <newsserver> active) belong to getlist, not to
foo.
ap
Anton Emmerfors wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Today I encountered something really weird...
>
> When trying to get an active list from a news server with
>
> getlist > foo -h <newsserver> active
>
> the output is not redirected into foo!
>
> No matter where I put the redirection (on the command line) or whether
> I use tee or pipe it to grep or whatever...
>
> If I do "echo something >foo" or "ls >foo" everything behaves as
> expected. Does anyone have any idea what might be borken?
>
> And, yes, I did try to redirect both STDOUT and STDERR. Redirecting
> strace (both 1 and 2) captures the strace output but the getlist
> output ends up on the screen only. What do I look for in the strace
> output?
>
> /Anton
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