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# 1  
Old 04-23-2008
Error file Redirection

Hello All,

I was wondering is there any other way in Shell Scripting to redirect the errors to a output file inside a shell script with using a error status checking or a command line redirection.

Say without doing this

ksh test.ksh 2> error.txt

or without doing this ...

if [ "$?" = "1" ]; then
exit 1
fi

Thanks

Rahul
# 2  
Old 04-23-2008
Your question is not very clear, but my hunch is you might be looking for this.

Code:
exec 2>error.txt

I don't understand the status checking part, though. Is that a different question?
# 3  
Old 04-23-2008
My Question is If we need to redirect the error output to a text file in shell script

we can do by using this ksh test.ksh 2> errorfile.txt
or We can do a Exit Status check as below ..

if [ "$?" = "1" ]; then
...
fi


But What my doubt is there any other way to redirect the the errors to the error file rather than using the command line redirection to a text file. I want to handling the error redirecting part within the shell script.

Thanks in advance

Rahul
# 4  
Old 04-23-2008
That's precisely what the exec does. I still don't understand the exit status check part.
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