logsave - save the output of a command in a logfile
SYNOPSIS
logsave [
-asv ]
logfile cmd_prog [ ... ]
DESCRIPTION
The
logsave program will execute
cmd_prog with the specified argument(s), and save a copy of its output to
logfile. If the containing directory for
logfile does not exist,
logsave will accumulate the output in memory until it can be written out.
A copy of the output will also be written to standard output.
If
cmd_prog is a single hyphen (-), then instead of executing a program,
logsave will take its input from standard input and save it in
logfile
logsave is useful for saving the output of initial boot scripts
until the /var partition is mounted, so the output can be written to
/var/log.
OPTIONS
Tag
Description
-a
This option will cause the output to be appended to
logfile, instead of replacing its current contents.
-s
This option will cause
logsave to skip writing to the log file text which is bracketed with a control-A
(ASCII 001 or Start of Header) and control-B (ASCII 002 or Start of
Text). This allows progress bar information to be visible to the user
on the console, while not being written to the log file.
-v
This option will make
logsave to be more verbose in its output to the user.