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Old 06-21-2010
Redirecting standard error issues.
Hello Friends,

Good Day.

I am trying to redirect a standard error to the bit bucket(/dev/null) but it is not working. Though, it is working fine in redirecting the standard output.

Below is the output of my script without any redirection:

Code:
[tibco@auktltar DailyCheckScript]$ ./CheckVSSLocks.sh
----------------------------------------------------------------
*************************VSS2 Locks*****************************
----------------------------------------------------------------
Domain                     Status
The Vss2 log files are not found for ICCIR2Test01
The Vss2 log files are not found for ICCIR2Test02
The Vss2 log files are not found for ICCIR2Test04
The Vss2 log files are not found for ICCIR2Test06
The Vss2 log files are not found for ICCIR2Test07
The Vss2 log files are not found for ICCIR2Test08
The Vss2 log files are not found for ICCIR2Test09
The Vss2 log files are not found for ICCIR2Test10
The Vss2 log files are not found for ICCIR2Test11
The Vss2 log files are not found for ICCIR2Test12
The Vss2 log files are not found for ICCIR2Test13
The Vss2 log files are not found for ICCIR2TEST14
The Vss2 log files are not found for ICCIR2Test15
The Vss2 log files are not found for ICCIR2TEST16
The Vss2 log files are not found for ICCIR2Tiest15
The Vss2 log files are not found for ICCIRSTDEV03
cat: Vss2logs.txt: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `Vss2log*': No such file or directory

Here is the output with redirection:
Code:
[tibco@auktltar DailyCheckScript]$ ./CheckVSSLocks.sh 2>&1 >/dev/null
cat: Vss2logs.txt: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `Vss2log*': No such file or directory

Can you please let me know what exactly is the issue and how it can be sorted out?

Thanks,
Chandan Singh
# 2  
Old 06-21-2010
i think its working. its showing.. u what is the error.
# 3  
Old 06-21-2010
Hi,

Thanks for your prompt response.

Is it possible to redirect it? I am going to add this script to the crontab.

So, bit worrying if it causes any problem during its schedule execution.
# 4  
Old 06-21-2010
Code:
./CheckVSSLocks.sh 2> /dev/null > &1

i think this is what u were asking.. check this.
# 5  
Old 06-21-2010
Code:
cat yourfile 1> somefile 2> /dev/null

Last edited by Scott; 06-21-2010 at 07:20 AM.. Reason: Code tags
# 6  
Old 06-21-2010
if the above command works for u then u dnt have to worry about .. putting it in crontab. u can put in cron widut worrying.
# 7  
Old 06-21-2010
Sorry, no luck.

Now it is giving me syntax error. I am using Linux .

Code:
[tibco@auktltar DailyCheckScript]$ ./CheckVSSLocks.sh 2 >/dev/null > &1
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `&'
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