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crackerplace

Reputation: 5475

Shell Scripting : Unable to scp output to log file

In My Shell Script I am trying to push the scp output to a log file.Below is the code snippet.On Command line I can see the logs but The scp logs are not pushed into the file .What can be the reason ?

FTP_LOG = "Log.txt"
scp -v ${feedFile} ${USER}@${DESTINATION}:inbox >> ${FTP_LOG}

Please help me on this as I can see that there are other people who faced the same issue when I google.

The other issue is that the last returned code after scp command doesnt really say if the file transfer was a success.Even when the file transfer fails I get the last return code as indicatng success.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2871

Answers (2)

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 944169

-v outputs to STDERR not STDOUT. You want 2>> not >>

Upvotes: 4

Gilles Quénot
Gilles Quénot

Reputation: 185560

The best aproch IMHO is to redirect stdout and stderr in 2 files, like that :

ftp_log=log
ftp_error_log_err_log
scp -v "$feedFile" $USER@${destination}:inbox > "$ftp_log" 2> "$ftp_error_log"

Upvotes: 0

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