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05-27-2004, 05:29 PM	#1
podollb Member Registered: Oct 2003 Location: Grand Forks, ND Distribution: Suse/Slackware/RH Posts: 161 Rep:	Redirect to file (after startup) Is there a way to start a process and then AFTERWARDS get it to start outputing to a file? For example, if I start a process and then realize I need to catch the output but can't afford to stop and restart it... I know I can CTRL-Z the process and then "bg" it but I wasn't sure of a way to get that to output to a file... Any suggestions?

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