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jtnire
Asked: 2013-10-29 18:30:40 +0800 CST

Bash -x to file and email

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I have a script that issues a lot of commands. I wish to save the output of this script (Errors and stdout) to a file, but I also want the actual commands that were executed to be saved to the file as well (as displayed by bash -x)

I've tried:

bash -x script.sh > log.txt

to no avail

Any help is appreciated. Thanks

linux

2 Answers

  1. I had tested the following its giving what you are looking for, The command below will log stdout/stderror to the file output.txt

    bash -x script.sh &> output.txt

    Sandeep

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  2. I believe your problem is that the output from "bash -x" is sent to stderr while your script's output is being sent to stdout.

    When you executed:

       bash -x script.sh > output.txt

    ...the normal output from your script was sent to the redirected file and the script commands (from the -x) continued to be displayed on your terminal screen.

    In order to send stderr and stdout to the same stream, you need to duplicate one atop the other. This is done using shell file descriptor dupe syntax "e.g. 2>&1"), like so:

       bash -x script.sh > output.txt 2>&1

    This syntax duplicates file descriptor #2 (stderr) over the top of file descriptor #1 (stdout)... which results in both streams getting redirected to your output file.

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