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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to redirect stderr and stdout to a file Post 302229867 by vidyadhar85 on Thursday 28th of August 2008 05:27:46 AM
Old 08-28-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by sushantnirwan
Hi friends
I am facing one problem while redirecting the out of the stderr and stdout to a file
let example my problem with a simple example
I have a file (say test.sh)in which i run 2 command in the background

ps -ef &
ls &

and now i am run this file and redirect the output to a file (say output.log)
./test.sh > output.log

Now the result stored in the file is not like that first ps -ef and than ls
it mixed the output of both command

Now help me so thats i can store the result in the file only one after another

Thanks
its because when you run them in background they will run simultaniously..
 

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