Saving all xterm output to a file

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, teddybouch wrote:

> I am trying to automate a simulation process, and part of this involves
> capturing the output that is written to an xterm window when a particular
> process is run. I thought that I had this figured out using the following
> command:
>
> ../run 1 Joiner default > results.dat

fwiw, this isn't specific to X...

> "run" is the program that I am running and want to catch the output of. 1,
> "Joiner," and "default" are parameters needed by that program. "results.dat"
> is the file that I want the output written to. It was working alright, but
> then I realized that it wasn't getting all the output that ought to be
> there. Now, it has progressed to the point that I'm not getting any of the
> printout statements at all - they don't appear in the xterm window or in the
> file.

Perhaps you're looking for the messages written to stderr.
For that you need to redirect stderr as well, e.g.,

../run 1 Joiner default 2>&1 > results.dat

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