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Apologies for the trivial nature of this question but I cannot seem to get a simple re direct to a log file to work

Step 1
touch log.txt
at -f batch.sh now >> log.txt

I am trying to get the batch.sh contents into the log file

Manny Thanks

The touch command isn't necessary, the file is created if it's not present.
Does your script echo the messages to stdout/stderr? Try to redirect both the output to the file:

Code:

at -f batch.sh now >> log.txt 2>&1

Regards

Thanks for the help so far. I now get output in the log but just the
job time and date message. I need the output from the run of batch.sh

Regards

Right... at is a batch program which will queue the process and run it at a future point in time. Redirecting NOW doesn't redirect the output later. (Redirection is a shell function). "at", however, will save the program's output to a file and email it to you. So check in Mail (or make sure email is properly setup for forwarding.) If you don't want email, then do this at the beginning of the script:

Code:

# ... initialization of your script
exec >$HOME/script-output.$$ 2>&1
# rest of your script

If you want to append to the same file everytime, do this instead:

Code:

# ... initialization of your script
exec >>$HOME/script-output.log 2>&1
# rest of your script

What output? Any output of your script should be in the file now....
Post the contents of batch.sh.

Regards

all that batch is doing in this instance is

/dev/vg00/lvol3 2097152 299240 1784336 14% /
/dev/vg00/lvol1 1048576 140264 901320 13% /stand
/dev/vg00/lvol21 2097152 127451 1857821 6% /webservers
/dev/vg00/lvol8 4784128 2101952 2661592 44% /var
/dev/vg00/lvol9 2097152 16982 1950167 1% /var/adm/crash
/dev/vg00/lvol7 6356992 5681080 670680 89% /usr
/dev/vg00/lvol12 1572864 645992 868997 43% /usr/cache
/dev/vg00/lvol4 262144 9960 250264 4% /tmp

this is what i need in the log

So in your script, you just need to do this:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
df 2>&1 | tee -a logfile.log

Now the output will be see both in the logfile and in your email.