Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi
below is my script which copies test file to each directory in the file and checks if the permissions are ok, but I am not able to capture the log of the output.
here is the script

Code:

#! /usr/bin/sh
set -x
cd /dir/of/files
while read line
do
cp test.txt $line
rm  $line/test.txt
done < /dir/list/of/dir/dir_test.txt >> Directory_test.log
echo "DONE"

the file dir_test.txt has all directories listed, I am testing copy permissions and there are more that 200 directories where we have to check for ermission issues. All I want to do is capture the log file.

I am not able to capture it this way...any ideas...? I need to capture log into Directory_test.log

Thanks,

Hi, you can use nohup.
Ex.

Code:

nohup yourscript &

That command generates a file (nohup.out) with the all output.

Cheers.

Try this :

Code:

#! /usr/bin/sh
exec > Directory_test.log 2>&1
set -x
cd /dir/of/files
while read line
do
cp test.txt $line
rm  $line/test.txt
done < /dir/list/of/dir/dir_test.txt 
echo "DONE"

It worked, thanks a lot.