Saving all xterm output to a file

[Jon TURNEY]

teddybouch wrote:
> Sorry, I'm not entirely sure I understood all that, but I wanted to give an
> update. I wrote a script and ran over 250 tests over last night using this
> syntax:
> 
> ./run 1 Joiner default 2>&1 | tee 2_7_09_results.dat
> 
> Only one of these tests gave output. Mark, if I understand you correctly,
> the "| tee" should be at the end? I will try that today. 
> 
> A few more details about the system, in case any of them matter. All of this
> is running on a MacBook Pro that is running Windows XP in Bootcamp. What the
> run program does is actually start up a few different processes, one of
> which I wrote, to control a robot in a simulation package. The program that
> I wrote has  bunch of printout statements that I need to see to debug why it
> isn't working and to take data once it is. I should mention that what I have
> been doing is completely closing out XWin after every run and re-opening it.
> I'm not sure if this will cause problems, and since it was test #67 that
> gave results last night, I don't think that would be the problem, but I'm
> going to try just closing bash and xterm between runs today.

If you really want to prove this is an xterm issue (which seems unlikely to me 
as this really revolves about what bash is doing), you should compare the 
behaviour between running the command under an xterm and running it under some 
other terminal emulator (e.g. the 'cygwin bash shell' menu shortcut which 
starts bash inside the native 'DOS window')

> 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.

It sounds like your output is gradually getting less and less.  But you don't 
really say what's changing here: the scripts you are running, the environment 
you are running them in, or just the output?


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