console redirect elsewhere?

unclecameron · 11-26-2008, 02:02 AM

what's the easiest of directing ALL output sent to the console by a command to either somefile.txt or better yet $somevariable in a bash script? I can't seem to redirect wget progress bar output to a file using wget somelocation > somefile.

nehaandrew · 11-26-2008, 09:49 AM

I think this URL should help resolve your issue - http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/0...simple-in.html

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nehaandrew · 11-26-2008, 09:50 AM

Or you could try :

wget --verbose somelocation > somefile

unclecameron · 11-26-2008, 11:40 AM

the problem is if I

Code:

wget http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/ubuntu-releases/intrepid/ubuntu-8.10-alternate-amd64.iso > somefile.txt

I don't get the progress bar, it still shows up on the console, I suspect there must be some environmental variable doing this, but I can't figure out what it is

colucix · 11-26-2008, 11:51 AM

Use the -o option of wget. Also note that all the messages from wget are sent to the standard error, so redirecting the standard output is not enough.