While this is somewhat off topic, I am sure that among the Perl Monks are also some Shell Monks...

In updating/re-testing my wxPerl installer script for Ubuntu 14.04LTS based on some good feedback to my eariler post, I discovered that my suggested invocation statement   sh -v wxPerl-Installer.sh > ~Perl/wxPerl-Installer.log was hanging up when something inside the process issued a prompt that wasn't visible on the screen(being hidden in the log file). Other than losing the prompt the mix of screen display vs. log file output is good.

I'm currently using   sh -v wxPerl-Installer.sh 2>&1 | tee wxPerl-Installer.log, but this command sends the mass amount of compiler info(+/- 2MB) to the screen as well as to the log file.

So, can I have it both ways? The display provided by command one without losing the prompts while sending the mass of compiler output only to the log file.

Thanks for your assistance.

Update1:

Thanks for the hints. What I finally decided I wanted for logging was STDOUT containing the mass of compiler output going to a file, STDERR containing a copy of the script(sh -v) and prompts and errors going to the screen and to a file. After much search I arrived at    sh -v wxPerl-Installer.sh 2>&1 >wxPerl-Installer.log | tee wxPerl-Installer.screen

James

There's never enough time to do it right, but always enough time to do it over...

In reply to wxperl Installer Script Logging by jmlynesjr

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