Point well taken. I can see the benefits of not redirecting those outputs, especially during a debugging process. From a long term solution, I think this is the right answer for the script as written, however. If I were to rewrite it, I might rewrite it to simply open those outputs to files instead, but the handling code is already written (and readable, and functional), so I don't see a lot of value in re-factoring that part of the code right now.