How to redirect output to a log file and background?

Note that the &> directs both stdout and stderr to output.log Stopping with and continuing in the background with bg is equivalent to execute with & at the end of the command. If you also need that this command does not die when you leave the terminal, then you should use nohup

How to redirect a script in the background?

The “2>&1” will redirect errors as well as normal output. Last edited by David1357; 02-12-2010 at 07:49 AM. Reason: Fixed redirection error. Good catch. I fixed it in my post. The redirection the result of a background python script to the file,the redirection of output is not happening after few lines.

How to run a script in the background?

I fixed it in my post. The redirection the result of a background python script to the file,the redirection of output is not happening after few lines. The redirection the result of a background python script to the file,the redirection of output is not happening after few lines.

Can You redirect stdout to a log file?

One problem with your first command is that you redirect stderr to where stdout is (if you changed the $ to a & as suggested in the comment) and then, you redirected stdout to some log file, but that does not pull along the redirected stderr.

How do you redirect a file in Perl?

Before you launch your favourite text editor and start hacking Perl code, you may just need to redirect the program output in the terminal. On UNIX-based systems you can write to a file using “>” and append to a file using “>>”. Both write and append will create the file if it doesn’t exist.

How to run a Perl script in the background?

I am new user to ubuntu… Putting & and in the end is putting the application on background, but not really, it still gives me the output of the perl script in my command line even though it is running in background. So it becomes useless as I have to wait for full script to be completed.

How to redirect console output to a text file?

The preferred method for this is to handle redirection via the command line, e.g. If you want to do this inside the perl script, add this code before you print anything: On Unix, to capture everything that goes to your terminal, you want to redirect both the standard output and the standard error.