[nylug-talk] Newbie command line question

[J. Oquendo]

John Campbell wrote:
> How do I redirect the output of an already running job to something
> other than the terminal?
> 
> For instance I did a large copy operation using "scp".  Then I
> suspended it with "C-k", and resumed it in the background with "bg",
> but the stderr messages appear in the terminal.  Is it possible to
> reroute the error messages while the job is in progress?
> 
> e.g.
> I type this:
> scp -r foo at server.com:~/files/* .
> and what I really want is:
> scp -r foo at server.com:~/files/* 2> errors.txt &
> 

Try using screen before running the command, e.g.:


screen
scp -f foo at server.com:~/files/* >> scp.output &
screen -d

That will show you all the output as if you were on term watching
so it might be a bit too much. Should work though as it will catch
everything.

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J. Oquendo
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