please help me in redirecting the error messages of this code to a log file.

for f in *.log; do
awk 'NF && NR>1 && $0!~/total:/
{
things_cost=$2*$3;
overalltotal=(overalltotal!="")? overalltotal"+"things_cost : things_cost;
if(things_cost!=$4)
{
things_er[$1]=things_cost" instead of "$4
}
err_t+=$4; t+=things_cost;
}
$0~/total/ && err_t
{
print "Error in calculations:";
for(i in things_er)
{
print "Things total for "i" is wrong: it should be "things_er[i]
}
print "Overalltotal is wrong: It should be "t; next
}1' "$f" 2> error.log
done

you should use:
in your awk script to print message to stderr. and 2>error.log will collect it and save in that file.

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Nothing is writing to file error.log is blank. I used the code in the below format. Please let me know where i am going wrong.

for f in *.log; do
awk 'NF && NR>1 && $0!~/total:/
{
things_cost=$2*$3;
overalltotal=(overalltotal!="")? overalltotal"+"things_cost : things_cost;
if(things_cost!=$4)
{
things_er[$1]=things_cost" instead of "$4
}
err_t+=$4; t+=things_cost;
}
$0~/total/ && err_t
{
print "Error in calculations:";
for(i in things_er)
{
print "Things total for "i" is wrong: it should be "things_er[i]
}
print "Overalltotal is wrong: It should be "t; next
}1' "$f" > "/dev/stderr" 2>error.log
done

and similar....

Like Pan said

I do not know awk but you still need a command to get the information to a path then a file (name).

that is just a set of directives without a command to start them off properly. It doesn't do anything because their is nothing in front of it to "push" it to /dev/stderr and a log file



gawk/manual/stderr

https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/ma...pecial-FD.html