Bash malfunction, or something else ??

[David Curry]

Jim Cox wrote:

>The lines "missing" from the file might have been sent to stderr (or
>stdlog) instead of stdout, and with your redirection will not go into
>the file. You can use something like:
>
>  cmd 2>&1 > filename.log
>
>to send both stderr and stdout to the log file.
>
>The "Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide" is a great read for learing shell
>programming:
>  http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
>
>and in particular the following chapter for I/O redirection:
>  http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/io-redirection.html
>
>  
>
Thx, Jim.  And to you also, Jason!