Hi,

I want to have a shell script in which i compile a project using the 'make' command and i want to write the entire output including the make output and errors to a log file as well as display it on the standard output. On GNU/Linux, the following syntax works properly:

$ make |& tee ./build.log

On windows, using MinGW, the above command gives an error, so i use the following command:

$ make | tee ./build.log

So, i have removed the '& from the above command.

But this command only writes the output of the make command to the log file. If i use the following command, then the log file is properly produced but nothing is written on the output:

$ make > ./build.log 2>&1

How can i write the entire output including the make output and errors to the output stream as well as the log file on the MinGW shell?

Thanks in advance!!!

Regards,
raman

You actually have the ingredients already
Just combine them:
Yves.

Hey Thanks!!!
It worked flawlessly.

Actually i wasn't able to understand "2>&1"

Thanks a ton!

Regards,
montylee

Actually i wasn't able to understand "2>&1"

2>&1 Sends stderr (2) to stdout (1)

Then why do we need '&'. Can't we achieve the same result with '2>1'?

2>1 would mean redirect errors (2) to file named "1".
2>&1 means redirect errors (2) to an existing descriptor (&) the number of which is 1.

Yves.

Yup, now i understand...
Thanks a ton for ur help!!!

GNU/Linux rocks!!!