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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Confused about redirecting stderr Post 303030842 by vbe on Sunday 17th of February 2019 05:49:42 PM
Old 02-17-2019
Well most common use of redirection is more redirecting STDERR to STDOUT:
Code:
 ls -al  . >ls.out 2>&1

I tend to keep both separate specially when using cron, as if in a rush, if you redirect all to error.log you are to read the whole file just to look for a possible issue but if you keep them separate:
Code:
my_cron_job >>my_cron_job.log 2>my_cron_job.err

Now my expectations is to see my_cron_job.err file size = 0 meaning all is well... and no point to look at my_cron_job.log if I am busy as all I will find there are the results of the job that executed correctly as the .err is empty...

Last edited by vbe; 02-18-2019 at 04:09 AM.. Reason: Typos - Thanks Rudi
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DWARF_GET_ABBREV_CODE(3)				   BSD Library Functions Manual 				  DWARF_GET_ABBREV_CODE(3)

NAME
dwarf_get_abbrev_code -- retrieve the abbreviation code for an abbreviation LIBRARY
DWARF Access Library (libdwarf, -ldwarf) SYNOPSIS
#include <libdwarf.h> int dwarf_get_abbrev_code(Dwarf_Abbrev abbrev, Dwarf_Unsigned *ret, Dwarf_Error *err); DESCRIPTION
Function dwarf_get_abbrev_code() retrieves the abbreviation code for the abbreviation entry descriptor referenced by argument abbrev. Argument ret should point to a location which will hold the returned abbreviation code. If argument err is not NULL, it will be used to store error information in case of an error. RETURN VALUES
Function dwarf_get_abbrev_code() returns DW_DLV_OK when it succeeds. In case of an error, it returns DW_DLV_ERROR and sets the argument err. ERRORS
Function dwarf_get_abbrev_code() can fail with: [DW_DLE_ARGUMENT] Either of arguments abbrev or ret was NULL. SEE ALSO
dwarf(3), dwarf_get_abbrev(3), dwarf_get_abbrev_tag(3), dwarf_get_abbrev_children_flag(3), dwarf_get_abbrev_entry(3) BSD
March 13, 2011 BSD
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