logsave(8)

NAME

   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

   -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.

AUTHOR

   Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu)

SEE ALSO

   fsck(8)

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