Re: Capturing what comes accross the screen

[Steeve McCauley <steeve oneguycoding com>]

On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 08:41, doug_dallmer wrote:
> I have set up RedHat 8.0, operate at init level 3 as root and now need to
> restore from a cpio archive file.
> 
> The  " cpio -icdumv <archive_all " seems to work fine.   However, every once
> in
> a while I see the message about skipping 4096 bytes of bad data interspersed
> with the list of path/file_names being created.
> 
> I need a way of capturing what is streaming across the screen during the
> cpio command so that I can identify the files that may be corrupted.   I
> have other cpio'd files of various parts of the complete restore so I can
> probably extract good copies of the corrupted files from these (I hope).
> 
> I have tried  " cpio -icdumv <archive_all  tee list "  " cpio -icdumv
> <archive_all
> | list "  with no success.    Any suggestions??
> 
> In general I would also like to capture what goes across the screen and in
> from the keyboard so that I could go back and review how I got to some place
> (usually in trouble in "river city").

Redirect the output to a file,

cpio -icdumv <archive_all > /tmp/cpio.out 2>&1

The "2>&1" redirects standard error to standard
output.

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