Re: (re?)directing compile output to a file

[Jonathan Kulp]

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Jonathan Kulp <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:24 AM, David Currie <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I am a musician and a programmer.
>>
>> How does one redirect/direct (lilypond) compile output to a file and not 
>> stdout
>> using command line options(or otherwise).
>>
>
> What you want, I think, is the -V command line option, but I haven't
> ever done this on Windows. I suspect if you use a command prompt and
> do lilypond -V filename.ly it will do what you want. Capturing it in a
> log file is then a matter of redirecting the output in the usual dos
> prompt way (which I don't know how to do, sorry).
>

Ok I rebooted in Vista and found this to work like I think you want:

lilypond -V filename.ly >> logfile.txt 2>&1

All verbose terminal output goes to the logfile.

Jonathan
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