less or > doesn't always work
sonny kher
Ranch Hand
Posts: 83
posted 14 years ago
when I try to pipe output from a build file to less or to a file, it doens't always catch everything. Why so?
ant > tempFile only writes like a couple of lines when the screen stdout sees like 50
ant > tempFile only writes like a couple of lines when the screen stdout sees like 50
Frank Carver
Sheriff
Posts: 6920
posted 14 years ago
There are actually two output streams (corresponding to System.out and System.err in Java). The '>' redirection only redirects the basic output stream, not the errors stream..
To redirect the error stream use 2>
To redirect the error stream use 2>
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