redirect screen output?

[jwmw1023]

how would i get the output on screen to dump to a file w/o interacting w/ the prog?

i use bdc and need to have a list of files it misses, i get 'update failed' all the time.
this is kinda what appears, but not real output:

bdc --arc --delete --moves /mnt/$whatever/

i get:
/mnt/$whatever/infected file.exe >> infected: $virusname
/mnt/$whatever/infected file.exe >> deleted
/mnt/$whatever/infected file.exe >> update failed

when you got this 90000 times, it gets kinda old to have to keep scanning and searching the results, which go offscreen.
i wish i knew how to get it to see the FILENAMES and store them and go back and kill them, but just having a list helps. any ideas?

[Freston]

Have you tried

command bla bla >> logfile

This saves the output to 'logfile'

Or you could of course do:

command bla bla | lpr
(sends output to the printer)

[techieMoe]

how would i get the output on screen to dump to a file w/o interacting w/ the prog?

i use bdc and need to have a list of files it misses, i get 'update failed' all the time.
this is kinda what appears, but not real output:

bdc --arc --delete --moves /mnt/$whatever/

i get:
/mnt/$whatever/infected file.exe >> infected: $virusname
/mnt/$whatever/infected file.exe >> deleted
/mnt/$whatever/infected file.exe >> update failed

when you got this 90000 times, it gets kinda old to have to keep scanning and searching the results, which go offscreen.
i wish i knew how to get it to see the FILENAMES and store them and go back and kill them, but just having a list helps. any ideas?

If you want to review the output later you can just use >:

command parameter > logfile

Any output from "command" will be redirected to a file named "logfile". If you just want the messages to go away entirely (and don't need to review them later you can redirect to null:

command parameter > /dev/null

This has essentially the same effect as telling the program to run in "silent" mode, since all messages are redirected into nothing, thus they just disappear.

[jwmw1023]

that simple? damn! bash scripting seems so hard @ first, but after awhile on forums...