Hello people,
I've got a program here and i know how to send stderr and stdout to a log file etc, etc, and of course i know if you don't specify a file those outputs will just be shown in the console window, but is it possible to do both at the same time on the same command, so i can see stderr and stdout as normal on the screen but it can also be getting stored at the same time in a log file. I don't know if something like the [ option1 || option2 ] type of thing comes into the equation by meaning option1 AND option2??

Would be cool if this is possible!! and how?
Cheers

Have a look at "man tee".

thanks, i've looked at it, but can't get it to workit only prints out stdout i'm using..

bash filename | tee -a log

i looked at the ibm site and they have a method of doing it but it seems complicated for something that should be simple. Thanks for the push in direction

Do you mean you get an empty log? Maybe, your script send messages to stderr only. You can try

Thanks, its alwasy the way i did try

bash filename | tee -a log 2>&1

before bothering to post here, should have tried that way to lol, thanks perfect!!!

Ahh not so good, i did try it on a little test and thought it would work fine within my program but it doesn't as i guess the way i invoke the commands are a little different.

what i have is a file with a lot of different commands in that can be executed. this works as follows.

PATH=$PATH:/path_to_commandfile
commandfile [argument]

then in the command file is a function and therefore depending on what argument was passed depends on the commands that are run within that file, what i would like to do is get the stdout and stderr onto the output on the screen, so basically where ever commandfile [argument] is run, it already outputs fine to a log file, but i can't see it on the screen even with the tee command i guess because its not sending the output to the right tty or something?? any ideas

Its ok all sorted now, thanks to people for their help

Final Result:-
run on screen
screen_pts=`tty`
echo "screen_pts="$screen_pts > file1


run in command file
source file1
command 2>&1 | tee -a log >> $screen_pts

works like a charm
Cheers