[Novalug] capturing rsync error output?

Mark Smith mark at winksmith.com
Thu Dec 20 14:09:40 EST 2007


your shell redirects are not ordered correctly.  ordering is important.
these two are NOT the same:

	program > output 2>&1
	program 2>&1 > output

you need to do the first form.  iow, redirect stdout first, then redirect
stderr to the same place as stdout.

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 06:19:00AM -0800, Brandon Saxe wrote:
> rsync -avz brandon /nas/oldbak/backup/shared/homes 2>&1 > /nas/oldbak/rsync.log

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Mark Smith
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