[ILUG] ksh question...

[Francis Daly]

On 24/02/2011, Braun Brelin <bbrelin at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi there,

> I'm trying to write a small ksh script that will call mysql (and mysqladmin)
>
> What I'd like to do is catch the output of mysqladmin and process errors
> myself
> rather than have the mysqladmin or mysql command print the errors out on
> STDERR.

I'm not sure from the question, but are you asking for something other
than "2> stderr_file", or possibly "2>&1"?

You can fairly easily catch stdout, or stderr, or stdout+stderr, but
if you want to catch both stdout and stderr, you pretty much need to
use at least one file.

Hope this helps,

        f