Re: bash: capturing the stdout/stderr of a cmd to system log?

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:25:24AM -0800, Thomison, Lee <ThomisonL@ci.anchorage.ak.us> wrote:
>
> As an alternative, is there a way to redirect stdout and stderr to a
> variable in the bashscript, rather than a file?

You can use backquote substitution to capture the output:
SHELLVAR=`scp blahblah`

I suppose you could throw a 2>&1 in there too.

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Bryan Medsker
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