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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Redirect output of echo to a file Post 302842513 by Just Ice on Friday 9th of August 2013 11:25:40 AM
Old 08-09-2013
the issue with your printline function is that nobody will see anything on the screen since all echo statements are being redirected to the log file ...

you would be better off redirecting the output of commands, functions and loops individually as that would give you much better flexibility ...
Code:
# this will echo to screen and also save info to 2 different files

myfunction(){
    user=$1
    userhome=/home/$user
    echo "$user: $userhome" >> /dir/user.home.list
    echo "hello, $user"
    echo "this is my your list"
    ls $userhome | tee -a /dir/dir.list
}

myfunction | tee -a /dir/my.log 2>>&1

Code:
# this will send redirect output of loop to files and to screen if ">> /dir/my.log" is removed ...

for file in *
do
    if [ -f $file ]
    then
        echo $file | tee -a /dir/file.list
    else
        echo "---" 
    fi
done >> /dir/my.log

 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

noecho

echo(3XCURSES)						  X/Open Curses Library Functions					    echo(3XCURSES)

NAME

       echo, noecho - enable/disable terminal echo

SYNOPSIS

       cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include  -L	/usr/xpg4/lib 
	-R  /usr/xpg4/lib  -lcurses  [ library... ]

       c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ]

       #include <curses.h>

       int echo(void);

       int noecho(void);

DESCRIPTION

       The  echo()  function enables Echo mode for the current screen. The noecho() function disables Echo mode for the current screen. Initially,
       curses software echo mode is enabled and hardware echo mode of the tty driver is disabled. The echo() and noecho() functions control  soft-
       ware echo only. Hardware echo must remain disabled for the duration of the application, else the behavior is undefined.

RETURN VALUES

       Upon successful completion, these functions return OK. Otherwise, they return ERR.

ERRORS

       No errors are defined.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |Unsafe			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       getch(3XCURSES), getstr(3XCURSES), initscr(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), scanw(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.11							    5 Jun 2002							    echo(3XCURSES)
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