Wow! I guess the question was too easy. I should have known this ... but had forgotten that time was going to stderr ... Lots of responses! Thanks to everyone for the excellent assistance! Marty Here's the original question: > I've been running a simple script test today & I wanted > to dump the output from this script to a log. I ran > the script and redirected the output to a log. The date > info (see below) is captured in the log. The result from > the "time" prefix (see below) on the mv command comes to > my screen instead of being written to the log. Can someone > explain how to get the time output to go to my log, too? > The script, in general, has something like this: > > date > time mv /ip4700/A0/scratch/testfile-eds4 /testfile-eds4 > date > time mv /testfile-eds4 /ip4700/A0/scratch/testfile-eds4 > date And here are a couple of the typical responses. -------------------------------- I think you probably need to redirect the output from stderr also. When you redirect using > only stdout is redirected. To redirect stderr you need something like this: script > log 2>&1 Where 'script' is the script you are running, 'log' is the log file. '2' is the handle for stderr and '1' is the handle for stdout so what '2>&1' does is redirect stderr to stdout. --------------------------------- Time sends its output to stderr; you need to redirect stderr. In csh: <script> >& <file> In sh: <script> > <file> 2>&1 -------------------------------- I received responses from all these people! Thank you! Hope I didn't miss anyone! From: ed.rolison@power.alstom.com From: Dan Lowe <dan@tangledhelix.com> From: "Matt M. Morris" <mattm@mattm.net> From: Darren Spiteri <Darren.Spiteri@affa.gov.au> From: Paul Updike <updike@msai.mea.com> From: Dave Werth <iim1dfw@iim.ups.com> From: "Chad.Harp" <Chad.Harp@yellowcorp.com> From: "Arthur W. Word Jr." <artword@yahoo.com> From: "Julian Simpson" <julian_simpson@gmx.co.uk> From: "Kaiser, Russell" <Kaiser@mail.psc.sc.edu> From: Jay Lessert <jayl@accelerant.net> From: Michael Schulte <mike@babbage.cs.umsl.edu> From: Alan B Clegg <abc@freebsd.org> From: "Kristopher Briscoe" <krisbriscoe@hotmail.com> From: Derek Olsen <Derek.Olsen@qsent.com> From: "Malloy, Jim" <JMalloy@ibasis.net> From: Nadya Williams <nadya@rai.ucsd.edu> From: "Sanjiv K. Bhatia" <sanjiv@aryabhat.cs.umsl.edu>Received on Fri Sep 14 13:15:20 2001
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