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Old 10-15-2013
How do I send output of a background process to a file other than nohup.out?
I have a question.

I will be running a background process using nohup and & command at end. I want to send output to a file say myprocess.out.

So will this command work?

Code:
nohup myprocess.ksh > myprocess.out &

Thanks in advance guys !!!

Smilie
Last edited by Scott; 10-15-2013 at 12:22 PM.. Reason: Code tags
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Old 10-15-2013
You can answer this question yourself with a simple, brief experiment using date, echo, or any other short-lived command which generates output.

Regards,
Alister
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Old 10-15-2013
Note that you may get into some trouble trying to use nohup in cron (if you plan to do so)
(check the link of post #2 in this thread )
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Old 10-15-2013
Thanks guys.

Actually I was running a vendor supplied script and it writes output to another location within script. So that is the resaon I was not seening any output.

I tested with simple echo commands in a sample script and that gets redirected correctly.

Smilie
 
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