"Matt Mello" <alien(at)spaceship(dot)com> writes:
> I am a linux shell [bash/sh] newbie. I want to capture the output of the
> vacuumdb and pg_dump commands to a log file. I want all of the lines that
> are normally displayed on the screen to be *appended* to a single log file
> that I can inspect offline at my convenience. I have discovered that
> ">>logfile" won't get all of the data. Can someone point me to an example
> of how to do that?
You're missing stderr. On sh/bash type shells you want
foo >>logfile 2>&1
There is some other locution on csh and its descendants, but I forget
what.
regards, tom lane