Brian McKee wrote: > Hi All > > I regularly run a script with time and sudo. e.g. >> time sudo echo 'hi mom' [snip] > Now I want to log the entire output to a log file as well as display > it on the screen. >> time sudo echo 'hi mom' | tee | logger -f /var/log/hiMom > > Only that doesn't work :-) Time is only on the screen, not in the log > file, and /var/log/hiMom is empty, regardless of the permissions on > that file. > > Can someone explain the redirection going on here in a way I can grok? 'time' writes output to stderr, use "time sudo echo 'hi mom' 2>&1" And why "logger -f"? Just "tee /var/log/hiMom". -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF
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