On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 04:26:56PM -0500, Josh Close wrote: > How would I start up a program and redirect all output, stdin, stdout > and stderr, to a file? > > program >> program_output.log > > .... can someone explain what the 2>&1 stuff means, or give me a link > somewhere. That would probably solve my problems also. I don't really > understand the redirection that well, or which 2/1/0 are. Assuming you're using the bash shell, the bash man page has decent documentation. Do a 'man bash', search for REDIRECTION. -- trammell at el-swifto.com 9EC7 BC6D E688 A184 9F58 FD4C 2C12 CC14 8ABA 36F5 Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list