Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: "Robert Mark Bram" Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: IO Redirection Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:54:55 +1100 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: c16563.frank1.vic.optusnet.com.au X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016016898 20247 210.49.205.182 (13 Mar 2002 10:54:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:54:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Thanks for the reply! > > How do I append error output? > > How do I append error and standard output? > > Just as you have written? > ">>" appends, ">" write to a new file, independend of the file > or source selected. That is, "&>>file" appends both. > > Why is that not obvious ? This is why: Robert Mark Bram@DIJONG ~ $ ls errors script1 script2 temp Robert Mark Bram@DIJONG ~ $ ls &>> temp bash: syntax error near unexpected token `&>>' Robert Mark Bram@DIJONG ~ $ Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/