I would suggest you stick with
commendtoexecute 1 >> logfile.log 2 >> errorfile.log
doing
2>&1 1>>everything.log
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Bryan O'Neal <
Bryan.ONeal@theonealandassociates.com> wrote:
> Ok - if I want to direct stranded out, standard error, or both to a
> file I can do that. If I want to redirect standard out to a variable
> for latter use, I can do that. But how do I redirect standard error to
> a variable?
>
> Example:
>
> function fun1()
> {
> val1=$(DoSomething with $1)
> if [[ $? -eq 1 ]]; then
> echo "DoSomething failed on value $1" >> logfile.log
> return 1
> else
> if [[ $val1 some test ]]; then
> echo "Condition met" >> logfile.log
> val2=$(DoSomethingElse with something and $val1 and $1)
> echo $val2
> return 0
> else
> echo "Condition not met" >> logfile.log
> return 1
> fi
> fi
> }
>
> fun1 somevalue
>
>
>
> So this is fine and good - but what if I want to know what the error
> was from a bad call to DoSomething - Further more what if instead of
> using a simple >> logfile.log I am using a complex function that
> correlated messages and creates a human readable log file? I would 1)
> spam roots email, and 2) lose the information as to what went wrong
> and where? I want to store std error into a variable (same or
> diffident var from expected output) so I can choose how to handle it.
>
>
> On of the things I have done is started to work on a logger4Bash
> function. It took a few min and has deferent log levels, deferent log
> files, tags, formatting, etc. Problem is what to do when information
> is spawned to standard out instead of being stored in a var I can
> manipulate latter.
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