Re: [Mingw-users] messages
At 05:54 PM 12/29/07, you wrote:
>On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 22:53 +0100, Michael Gerdau wrote:
> > > tried every combination of 1>&messages.txt 2>&1
> > > Ampersands always become part of the filename.
>
>1>&messages... is surely a typo; there *definitely* should *not* be an
>ampersand in there, (unless you wanted a file called &messages.txt)!
>
>2>&1, as Michael explains, means redirect stderr to the same destination
>as file descriptor 1, which is stdout. In this redirection context, the
>ampersand only makes sense when followed by a *numeric* file descriptor.
>
> > 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.
>
>But this is *nix shell redirection syntax; IIRC, it may also be
>supported in cmd.exe, but it *doesn't* work in command.com, so if you
>are still using a version of Woe32, (9x, IIRC), which still uses that
>abomination as its native shell, then perhaps you should do yourself
>a favour, by installing and using MSYS.
>
>Regards,
>Keith.
then I assume this wont work and I should give up now "and do myself a favor"
install msys? where how? thought I did that.
F:\povwinmg>mingw32-make -f windows\makefiles\makefile.gcc USE_GUI=1
BUILD=relea
se >my_logile.txt 2>&1
MINGW3~4.EXE: *** No rule to make target `2'. Stop.
lastest version of this install (for win98SE) ?? where how?
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