Re: [Mingw-users] messages

[Michael Gerdau <mgerdau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> tried every combination of 1>&messages.txt 2>&1
> Ampersands always become part of the filename.

I haven't followed this discussion from the start but the above line
most likely does not do what you want it to.

I assume what you are looking for is some like

   some_command >my_logile.txt 2>&1

which is a shorthand version of

   some_command 1>my_logile.txt 2>&1

It does redirect the stuff written to STDOUT (filehandle 1) to the file
my_logfile.txt. It then does redirect STDERR (filehandle 2) to STDOUT
(filehandle 1) which in turn is already redirected to my_logfile.txt.

Giving "&1" instructs the shell to not write to a file named "&1"
(or "1") but to the filehandle number 1 (which usually is stdout).

In other words:
writing "&" directly followed by a digit (or number) is a special syntax
to write to filehandles.

Not sure this does help you with your original problem but it definitely
should redirect all msgs (both stdout and stderr) to the desired file.

Best,
Michael
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