[plug] Catch output of XFree86 -scanpci -verbose

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Wed Dec 24 13:34:19 WST 2003


On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 13:11, James Devenish wrote:
*snip*
> 
> Ah, yes, the other detail that was missing from the original question

Sorry I didn't think of including that detail. I assume you mean it puts
the output to screen when I run the command normally. Well I'd probably
be complaining about that first if that didn't work (;

> (i.e. whether the correct output appeared on the terminal regardless of
> the redirection). I also think that bash supports an alternative syntax,
> such as:
> 
> $ XFree86 -scanpci -verbose &> output.txt
> 

Thanks James,

The &> did work for me.

Now to get on with my project (:

regards,

Chris

-Merry Christmas





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