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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Redirecting shell output.
Message-ID: <4925@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 18:31:50 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 22 18:31:50 1987
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References: <289@minya.UUCP>
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As quoted from <289@minya.UUCP> by jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers):
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| Hi, folks.  Here's my shell puzzle of the day.  We all learn in our first
| hour of Unix lessons how to redirect input and output of any command that
| is started by a shell.  What I'd like to know is:  Is there a "right" way
| to tell the shell to redirect the output of ALL subsequent commands to a
| file?
+---------------

Nonintuitive, ugly, and while it's documented it took me years to figure
out that this was what they meant:

Start your script with "exec >file 2>&1".  (Note that you don't actually
exec anything, all you give are the redirections.)
-- 
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