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springloaded

Reputation: 1089

How to redirect stderr to a file for the whole pipe?

I am running a command like this:

mycmd1 | mycmd2 | mycmd3 | lp

Is there a way to redirect stderr to a file for the whole pipe instead of repeating it for each command?

That is to say, I'd rather avoid doing this:

mycmd1 2>/myfile | mycmd2 2>/myfile | mycmd3 2>/myfile | lp 2>/myfile

Upvotes: 8

Views: 1739

Answers (2)

Petr Skocik
Petr Skocik

Reputation: 60143

Either 

{ mycmd1 | mycmd2 | mycmd3 | lp; } 2>> logfile

or 

( mycmd1 | mycmd2 | mycmd3 | lp ) 2>> logfile

will work. (The first version might be have a slightly faster (~1ms) startup time depending on the shell).

Upvotes: 11

springloaded
springloaded

Reputation: 1089

I tried the following, and it seems to work:

(mycmd1 | mycmd2 | mycmd3 | lp) 2>>/var/log/mylogfile.log

I use >> because I want to append to the logfile rather than overwriting it every time.

Upvotes: 2

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