Hello,

I have a question about redirecting stdout and stderr. I have searched on Google and this forum and cant find the answer to my question.

Normally when I write scripts, I specify the redirection on each individual command like so:

echo hello > /some/file 2>&1
ls /home > /some/file 2>&1

What I want to do is have all the commands in my script output to a file without having to specify it on each individual command.

I know one solution is to just specify the redirection in the crontab like so:

* * * * * /some/script > /some/file 2>&1

I am just wondering if you can accomplish the same thing inside the script itself with some kind of global variable at the beginning of the script.

Anyone know if this is possible and how?

If I understand what you want try putting this near the top of the script:

I dont think that is the answer I am looking for but thanks.

Right now I am doing this: (just example commands)

Script:

echo hello > /some/file
ls /home > /some/file

What I want to do is this:

Script:

echo hello
ls /home

I dont want to have to specify on each command where the output should go. I want to globally define it somewhere so that all commands output is redirected to where ever I define it.

Just put

near the beginning of the script.

Another thought -- if you are running multiple sequential commands and want them all redirected to /some/file, you could do:

Thanks guys.

I didnt think the "exec" command would do what I wanted, but it does. Thanks again