Shell Programming and Scripting

Dears ,

kindly I wanna do test for one KSH script to know how is it working , the problem that I'm facing is whenever put "sh -x ./my_script.sh"
the output seems very long & although I tried to to redirect it to files as it shown , but it failed :-

sh -x ./my_script.sh > output.txt
or
sh -x ./my_script.sh | tee output.txt

I'm sure there is a way to redirect the output from "test shell script" to be able to read and analyze the error that I did in every line in that shell , please do support to show me how can overcome such , as far as I know test the script is really a good step to be professional in programming world .

thanks .

The trace information will come out to standard error (file descriptor 2) rather than standard output.

You could try:-

Code:

sh -x ./my_script.sh > output.txt 2>&1

or

Code:

sh -x ./my_script.sh 2>&1 | tee output.txt

I hope that this helps, but let us know if not.

Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK

thanks a lot , I was guessing that testing any script is not considered as standard error that is why I'm not thinking to redirect the output this way , I can see what I was looking for , thanks for prompt response