Hi,

I am unable to get this script to work as desired. Basically, if an argument "log" is sent into the script, it outputs the result of the Make to a file output.log. However, if the argument is not passed, I want the output to be just put on screen (no redirection). See code snippet below.

Code:

# program name redirect_make.sh
# Setup
FILE=
OUTPUTFILE="output.log"
if [ "$1" == 'log' ]
then
{
  FILE = $OUTPUTFILE
}
fi

# Now make and redirect all output to file (including errors/warnings)
# if output file has been specified, else do not redirect (print to screen)
make -f program.mak &> "$FILE"

Regards
Srujan

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Oh, if it is not clear - the entire code snippet I have mentioned above is the shell script itself (meaning, the make command is part of the script itself)