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Old 12-22-2005, 07:08 PM
bobby bobby is offline
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how to get output of the script to a file somewhere
$ command > filename


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so i cannot tell weather the script completed or not
$ nohup command &

nohup tells it to keep running even if the tty dies (and it automatically sends output to a file called nohup.out)

& brings you back to the prompt while it runs in the background

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