[ale] sometimes I hate bash

[Jim Kinney]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:

> On 12/16/2009 09:20 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > WOOHOO!!!!! SUCCESS!!!!!
> >
> > It was the I/O redirect with script messing up inside a redirected cron
> > environment
> >
> > do_process_foo param 1 param2 >> $log_file 2>&1
> >
> > What a brilliantly simple thing that is reliable and stupid easy.
> >
> > Until I have to come along and live up the nickname Aaron and Jeff gave
> > me "The OverEngineer"
>
> Heh, it happens. I was not familiar with the script command until this
> email thread.
>
> script - make typescript of terminal session
>
> Seems nifty.
>
> On retrospect, it strikes me a precursor to gnu screen's ability to share a
console output remotely. It is pretty cool.

as long as it's NOT used in cron :-)
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James P. Kinney III
Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness
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