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Old 05-20-2013
Calling script from script
I have a script that run several commands and displays them as they run. I want to call the script from another script and have the output write to a text file. I currently have a line in my calling script like;
Code:
/location_of_script/script_to_be_called > /tmp/file_to_write.txt

Nothing is getting written to the file. I don't want to have to add a > /tmp/file_to_write.txt to the end of every line in the called script but there could be 20 to 30 lines.
Last edited by Scott; 05-20-2013 at 10:46 AM.. Reason: Code tags
# 2  
Old 05-20-2013
Is the second script printing to STDIN or STDERR?
# 3  
Old 05-20-2013
the 2nd script post to STDOUT, it will display on the screen if run from command line by itself.
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Old 05-20-2013
Then you're going to have to show us the 2nd script for us to help figure out what is going on. Some programs exit if their output is not connected to a terminal device; some write directly to a hardware frame buffer. Without seeing the script, we are only guessing and you've already eliminated the most common cases for what you've said is happening.
# 5  
Old 05-21-2013
This started when we moved the server to new hardware. On the old hardware the output information is written to a text file.
Here is a portion of the script which starts one of the instances on the server.

Code:
echo "Starting Node Agents"
cd /usr/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/AppSrv01/bin
./startServer.sh nodeagent
cd /usr/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/AppSrv02/bin
./startServer.sh nodeagent

Code:
echo "Starting Application Servers - JVM1"
cd /usr/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/AppSrv01/bin
./startServer.sh server1
./startServer.sh IBMDB2eServer

Last edited by zaxxon; 05-21-2013 at 11:05 AM..
# 6  
Old 05-23-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by daveisme
the 2nd script post to STDOUT, it will display on the screen if run from command line by itself.
STDERR is also your screen, what happens if you call it this way:
Code:
/location_of_script/script_to_be_called 2>&1 > /tmp/file_to_write.txt

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