[{"Type":"MASTER","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB57","label":"Power"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU058","label":"IBM Infrastructure w\/TPS"},"Product":{"code":"SWG60","label":"IBM i"},"Platform":[{"code":"PF012","label":"IBM i"}],"Version":"6.1.0"}] Show First thing to note is that there's couple of ways depending on your purpose and shell, therefore this requires slight understanding of multiple aspects. Additionally, certain commands such as Basic theory behind redirection is that a process spawned by shell (assuming it is an external command and not shell built-in) is created via 0 syscalls, and before that happens another syscall 1 performs necessary redirects before 0 happens. In that sense, redirections are inherited from the parent shell. The 3 and 4 inform the shell on how to perform 5 and 1 syscall (see also How input redirection works, What is the difference between redirection and pipe, and What does & exactly mean in output redirection )Shell redirectionsMost typical, is via 7 in Bourne-like shells, such as 8 (which is symlinked to 9) and 0; first is the default and POSIX-compliant shell and the other is what most users use for interactive session. They differ in syntax and features, but luckily for us error stream redirection works the same (except the 1 non standard one). In case of csh and its derivatives, the stderr redirection doesn't quite work there.Let's come back to 7 part. Two key things to notice: 3 means redirection operator, where we open a file and 4 integer stands for stderr file descriptor; in fact this is exactly how POSIX standard for shell language defines redirection in section 2.7:
For simple 3 redirection, the 6 integer is implied for 7, i.e. 8 is just the same as 9. Note, that the integer or redirection operator cannot be quoted, otherwise shell doesn't recognize them as such, and instead treats as literal string of text. As for spacing, it's important that integer is right next to redirection operator, but file can either be next to redirection operator or not, i.e. 0 and 1 will work just fine.The somewhat simplified syntax for typical command in shell would be
The trick here is that redirection can appear anywhere. That is both 2 and 3 are valid. Note that for 0 shell, there there exists 1 way to redirect both stdout and stderr streams at the same time, but again - it's bash specific and if you're striving for portability of scripts, it may not work. See also Ubuntu Wiki and .Note: The 3 redirection operator truncates a file and overwrites it, if the file exists. The 7 may be used for appending 8 to file.If you may notice, 3 is meant for one single command. For scripts, we can redirect stderr stream of the whole script from outside as in 0 or we can make use of exec built-in. The exec built-in has the power to rewire the stream for the whole shell session, so to speak, whether interactively or via script. Something like
In this example, the log file should show 1.Yet another way is via functions. As kopciuszek noted in his answer, we can write function declaration with already attached redirection, that is
Commands writing to stderr exclusivelyCommands such as
alternatively, synchronous list or subshell could be redirected if you want to separate the output ( as shown in related post ):
Other commands, such as 6 provide means to redirect stderr. strace has 8 option which allows specifying filename where output should be written. There is also an option for writing a textfile for each subprocess that strace sees. The 6 command writes the text user interface to stdout but output to stderr, so in order to save its output to variable ( because 1 and pipelines only receives stderr ) we need to swap the file descriptors
but additionally, there is 2 flag, which we also can utilize. There's also the method of named pipes. I recommend reading the linked post about the 6 command for thorough description of what's happening.
How to redirect both the output and error of a command to a file?Any file descriptor can be redirected to other file descriptor or file by using operator > or >> (append).
Which command redirects standard error messages in Linux?The redirection operator (command > file) only redirects standard output and hence, the standard error is still displayed on the terminal. The default standard error is the screen. The standard error can also be redirected so that error messages do not clutter up the output of the program.
How to redirect command output to a file in shell script?There are multiple ways to redirect output from shell scripts and commands.. Redirect STDOUT. ... . Redirect STDERR. ... . Send STDOUT and STDERR to the same file. ... . Redirect output, but append the file. ... . Redirect to another process or to nowhere. ... . Use redirection in a script.. Which symbol redirects an error message to a file?The regular output is sent to Standard Out (STDOUT) and the error messages are sent to Standard Error (STDERR). When you redirect console output using the > symbol, you are only redirecting STDOUT. In order to redirect STDERR, you have to specify 2> for the redirection symbol.
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