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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Redirecting STDERR to file and screen, STDOUT only to file Post 302698023 by Lem on Friday 7th of September 2012 06:43:11 PM
Old 09-07-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by alister
The blame for that behavior almost certainly lies with your ls implementation. Which ls are you using?

I can reproduce that behavior with GNU ls.
Yep, alister, my ls is ls (GNU coreutils) 8.5.

Just for the sake of curiosity, I was wondering whether we could try an ugly workaround (I know it's at least ugly): if GNU ls splits too much its error messages, what about a little pause between ls and tee?

It seems to work. Here below the count of "nonefile"s gives us the number of
broken logs:

Code:
$ for i in {1..1000}; do { exec 3>&1; ls file none 2>&1 1>&3 | tee -a /dev/null; } |grep nonefile; done |wc -l
56

so 56 broken logs out of 1000 tries, versus:

Code:
for i in {1..100}; do { exec 3>&1; ls file none 2>&1 1>&3 | { sleep 1; tee -a /dev/null; }; } |grep nonefile; done |wc -l
0

0 broken out of 100 tries.


BTW: of course, if one doesn't care at all about having all the errors at the beginning or at the end of the log, a solution is obvious:

Code:
command 2>&1 >logfile | tee -a error; cat error >>logfile

or
Code:
command 2>&1 >output | tee -a logfile; cat output >>logfile

But... ça va sans dire. Smilie
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