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pls somebody help with this ,

how to redirect the the STDERR to a file and to STDOUT simultaneously, ie if an error occurs the error message should be displayed on the screen as well as append to a file specified....

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There may be several methods, one would be to just put stderr into a file, and append another command to the line that, if error occurs, cat'ed the error file (for example || cat errors.txt).

EDIT: also check program 'tee', it could help too (or then not; I think it's easier to just redirect stderr to a file, and then cat it in case of error).

writing to stdout and a file
 

Hello,
I think you should use tee

if you were sorting to a printer you could write
sort inputfile | lp

if you use tee it looks like
sort inputfile | tee logfile | lp

now the result of the sort is not only sent to te printer but also written in the file logfile

Regards, Hans.

sorry but my requirement is different , the file is a log file , so i cannot cat all the details to the terminal , so can u tell me any other possibilities thanks in advance:)

Ok, instead of catting the whole file you could also use tail (or head, if you do thinks standing on your head) to print last X lines for example..but now you probably mean that you don't know how many lines the error produces, so you don't know exactly how many lines you would want to read, and don't want to read too much either.

Well, second way I can think of, thought not as easy as the first one, would be to send stderr to a variable, then print that variable to screen and echo it to a file. Never tried myself (have not needed), good luck :)

sorry , i want to display ti it to terminal , i am giving this command:-

system("/usr/atria/bin/clearmake @ARGV") |"tee -a /tmp/cclogs/$userid.$time.log"|`>&1` ;

any suggestions ??

can u be more specific

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Looks like a Perl cmd.
Put the whole thing inside the system() cmd and remove the second pipe symbol.
Also drop the single quotes at the end.

system("/usr/atria/bin/clearmakeold @ARGV | >> /tmp/cclogs/$userid.$time.log 2>&1") ;

I have the whole thing within system , but the STDERR was displayed to terminal , but not copied to the file , any help ??

You still need the 'tee' cmd to make it output to 2 different places simultaneously.

ok, where should i put the tee command ?? can you specify to me ??

thanks a lot :-)

i put the tee command instaed of the rediretion , and
firstly i redirected the STDERR to STDOUT adn later did tee-a to the file and got what i need, once again thanks for u r support