1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi UF family members, I am intermediate in Unix language and scripting.I know the redirection systems in unix,but the below statement confuses me: #!/bin/ksh . $HOME/.profile 2>&- Actually this is an extract from a unix script which was trying to set the... (6 Replies)

2. Filesystems, Disks and Memory

Hi all,, Is there any way to redirect the command o/p directaly to a memory location instead of redirecting it to the file?? (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, The code below works, it's a part of a bash shell script that serve to search a pattern $pattern_da_cercare in the files contained in a directory $directory_iniziale. Now the proble is: How can I redirect stderr to a file? PS: so I want to redirect ALL the errors to a file. I tryed... (9 Replies)

4. Programming

Hi, To explain this question I will have to go into a bit of detail. I hope you don't mind. currently I have a log handler (an already compiled c++ version) and what it does is makes a log file and writes all the unix output (echo, etc) of a script to that log file. To me the log_handler is... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, Actually i need to know whether there is any way to redirect the output of shell operations into any file without pipe . Actually my problem is , i run some command & its result is displayed on shell after some calculations on shell, so if i redirect its output to file, it is not... (5 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Guys, I m new to UNIX and new to this forum. Was wondering if someone can help me understand redirection (standard input output pipeline etc) for starters, not too sure what this would mean who | sort > sortedfile | pr | lp im starting to understand common commands but when throwing... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Guys, I have a script for which the stdout and stderr should be redirected to a log file, they should not be printed on the screen. Could you please let me know the procedure to redirect the output of the script to a log file. Thanks in advance. --- Aditya (5 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

cmd='date | wc' or cmd="date | wc" $cmdIf this script is executed, an error is generated. The reason written was that "The execution fails because the pipe is not expanded and is passed to date as an argument". What is meant by expansion of pipe. When we execute date | wc on the command line, it... (2 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

how to redirect a output value to a file (1 Reply)

10. UNIX and Linux Applications

Background is I am attempting to recover/rescue an HP DL380 G5 which is running SCO Unixware 7.11. It has 3 partitions in a RAID 5 Configuration and is unable to boot with a Stage 3 boot load error. .. Client has no emergency rescue disk. System is old and redundant except they suddenly need some... (4 Replies)