Re: redirecting error-messages

[Martin Holz]

Stef Pillaert <address@hidden> writes:
> I do a lot of my octave-calculations in the background, so I do things like:
> 'calculate.bat > calculate.comment &'
> where calculate.bat calls a few octave-functions, and I look at the results
> in calculate.comment afterwards. This all works fine, but sometimes I have
> errors (because of some mistake I made in an .oct-file, or because of
> memory-overloading, ...), and the error-messages don't show in the
> calculate.comment-file (they are sent to the terminal)... Is there a way to
> direct these messages to a file?

#!/bin/sh 
# Redirect the stderr stream to stdout and send stdout to file.
octave < inputfile > outputfile 2>&1 &