[LUNI] Capturing what comes accross the screen

[Jay Strauss]

use tee,  that way you can direct the output to a file as well as see it on
the screen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "doug_dallmer" <doug_dallmer at netzero.net>
To: <luni at luni.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 8:54 AM
Subject: [LUNI] Capturing what comes accross the screen


>
> 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").
>
> Doug Dallmer
>
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