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Author: Dazed_75
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Subject: Re: Redirection in bash: stdout AND stderr to file while SIMULTANEOUSLY stderr to another file.
oops, meant to say google got "linux tee for stderr"

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Dazed_75 <> wrote:

> Sounds like you need a tee for stderr. I guess you could use it on stdout
> for your log but if it makes such a large file, you probably don't want
> that. Maybe do a google search on"linux tee for stdout"?
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:05 AM, <
> > wrote:
>
>> Good morning...
>>
>> What I have:
>> I wrote a script that generates a LOOOOOOOONG log file...
>> I send stdout and stderr to the same file so I can see errors into
>> context.
>>
>> Problem is:
>> I have to find that THERE WAS an error first...
>> There are no obvious cues to separate the GOOD messages from the BAD
>> messages and scanning a long text file visually is a (sometimes useless)
>> challenge.
>>
>> What I want:
>> stdout to one file.
>> stderr simultaneously out to 2 files.
>> I want to keep my log as it is (again, errors into context), but I also
>> want
>> to output a parallel log with ERRORS only.
>> In other words:
>> One log captures only errors, so I know that something failed and,
>> another log captures EVERYTHING so I know WHERE it failed.
>>
>> I know this is possible, but I am already dizzy trying to make sense of
>> the
>> redirection reading.
>> Thanks!
>> ET
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> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
>
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