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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Is there a way to tee stderr from a command that's redirecting error to a file? Post 302355339 by sumgi on Tuesday 22nd of September 2009 10:39:03 AM
Old 09-22-2009
Is there a way to tee stderr from a command that's redirecting error to a file?
I'm not a complete novice at unix but I'm not all that advanced either. I'm hoping that someone with a little more knowledge than myself has the answer I'm looking for.

I'm writing a wrapper script that will be passed user commands from the cron...

Ex:
Code:
./mywrapper.sh "/usr/bin/ps -ef | grep foo > log/ps.out 2>&1"

The wrapper will execute them from the cron and log start and stop times and any errors or exit codes.

Question:
However in the case as above that a user is redirecting their errors to their own log file is there a good way to sample the error such that both the user log and the wrapper log get the error message?

Let me know if you need more info, thanks!

Currently I am grabbing the stderr away from the user command and sending it to a temp file. However this method removes the error from the user log.

Ex:
Code:
eval "$1 2> temp.err"
ERR=`cat temp.err`
rm temp.err

Last edited by sumgi; 09-22-2009 at 02:05 PM..
 

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TEE(1)								   User Commands							    TEE(1)

NAME

       tee - read from standard input and write to standard output and files

SYNOPSIS

       tee [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       Copy standard input to each FILE, and also to standard output.

       -a, --append
	      append to the given FILEs, do not overwrite

       -i, --ignore-interrupts
	      ignore interrupt signals

       -p     diagnose errors writing to non pipes

       --output-error[=MODE]
	      set behavior on write error.  See MODE below

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

   MODE determines behavior with write errors on the outputs:
       'warn' diagnose errors writing to any output

       'warn-nopipe'
	      diagnose errors writing to any output not a pipe

       'exit' exit on error writing to any output

       'exit-nopipe'
	      exit on error writing to any output not a pipe

       The default MODE for the -p option is 'warn-nopipe'.  The default operation when --output-error is not specified, is to exit immediately on
       error writing to a pipe, and diagnose errors writing to non pipe outputs.

AUTHOR

       Written by Mike Parker, Richard M. Stallman, and David MacKenzie.

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       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) tee invocation'

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