Re: Bourne Shell help
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 02:37:00PM -0500, Paul Galbraith wrote:
> I think this should be an easy question, but after some effort I still
> haven't found an answer, and am really curious now!
>
> I wanted to run a compile in the background (in a bourne shell) and dump
> stderr and stdout to a file....should be simple enough, but obviously I
> don't spend enough time in 'sh' to know the answer. I tried this:
>
> nice make build > /root/XF4-make.out 2>&1 &
>
> and it doesn't work quite right. If I drop the final '&', the command
Does it work without "nice"? Maybe there is some weird interaction of
the stdout/stderr of the nice and make commands. Maybe try:
(nice make build ) > /root/XF4-make.out 2>&1 &
which should run everything in () in a sub-shell, thus only 1 stdout/err
stream to work with. You did say "bourne" shell, and I guess I'm more
familiar with "bash", but I think this is still okay.
> runs fine in the foreground, and dumps stdout and stderr to the file, so
> that part of things seems ok. It's just getting it to run in the
> background that has stumped me. I wrote a one liner script to do the
> job...but it's still really bugging me, can anyone tell me how to do it
> from the command line?
>
> Cheers!
>
> Paul
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