AIX

I am trying to redirect the output of the commands pwdck,usrck,grpck to specific file. I tried ">" but doesn't work.

Code:

<aixtestserver@/>usrck -n ALL > /tmp/mylog
3001-664 The account for user daemon has expired.
3001-664 The account for user bin has expired.
3001-664 The account for user sys has expired.
3001-664 The account for user nobody has expired.
3001-664 The account for user lpd has expired.
3001-612 User lp has a non-existent
         or inaccessible home directory /var/spool/lp.
3001-648 The user lp has no stanza in /etc/security/user.
3001-648 The user lp has no stanza in /etc/security/user.
3001-662 User sshd is locked.
3001-612 User ldap has a non-existent
         or inaccessible home directory /home/ldap.
<aixtestserver@/>

I don't know why the output showed in the screen, not going to the file!
if i use other commands like (ls,pwd,df..etc) the redirecting work fine.
Any help please?

edit by bakunin: i have redirected a few CODE-tags your way, please feed them yourself into the posting-pipeline from now on. Thanks.

Hi

we have these redirection operators in UX

0 : --> stdin
1 : --> stdout
2 : --> stderr

<aixtestserver@/>usrck -n ALL > /tmp/mylog
3001-664 The account for user daemon has expired.
3001-664 The account for user bin has expired.
3001-664 The account for user sys has expired.
3001-664 The account for user nobody has expired.
3001-664 The account for user lpd has expired.

try

# ll usrck 2>output_file

=========================================

We use "2>" for stderr redirection to tell the shell that we want to redirect the error messages instead of
stdout (for which the file descriptor value is 1). Consider the following command.
$ ll xyz
xyz not found.
$
We tried to list a file with name xyz and the command result shows that this file does not exist. This is an
error message of the ll command. Now see the following command.
$ ll xyz >abc
xyz not found.
$
We tried to redirect the output, but still the message is displayed on our screen. The redirection had no
effect because we are trying to redirect stdout while the command is generating stderr messages. Now
let us see what happens if we change ">" to "2>".
$ ll xyz 2>abc



Hope u find this useful

GREAT !

Thank you for the useful information

Thanks a lot,,!