I would like
to run several commands, and capture all output
to a logfile. I also want
to print any errors
to the screen (or optionally mail the output
to someone).
Here's an example. The following command will run three commands, and will write all output (STDOUT and STDERR) into a single logfile.
{ command1 && command2 && command3 ; } > logfile.log 2>&1
Here is what I want
to do with the output of these commands:
STDERR and STDOUT for all commands goes
to a logfile, in case I need it later--- I usually won't look in here unless there are problems.
Print STDERR
to the screen (or optionally, pipe
to /bin/mail), so that any error stands out and doesn't get ignored.
It would be nice if the return codes were still usable, so that I could do some error handling. Maybe I want
to send email if there was an error, like this:
{ command1 && command2 && command3 ; } logfile.log 2&1 || mailx -s "There was an error"
[email protected]
The problem I run into is that STDERR loses context during I/O redirection. A '2&1' will convert STDERR into STDOUT, and therefore I cannot view errors if I do 2 error.log
Here are a couple juicier examples. Let's pretend that I am running some familiar build commands, but I don't want the entire build
to stop just because of one error so I use the '--keep-going' flag.
{ ./configure && make --keep-going && make install ; } > build.log 2>&1
Or, here's a simple (And perhaps sloppy) build and deploy script, which will keep going in the event of an error.
{ ./configure && make --keep-going && make install && rsync -av --keep-going /foo devhost:/foo} > build-and-deploy.log 2>&1
I think what I want involves some sort of Bash I/O Redirection, but I can't figure this out.
