mt status option
John H Merritt
merritt at iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov
Thu Dec 13 06:50:58 AEST 1990
In article <9012111454.aa09992 at VGR.BRL.MIL> kcables at RELAY.NSWC.NAVY.MIL writes:
>mt command with the status option, the output always appears at
>my terminal, regardless of whether its output is redirected or piped,
It is writing to stderr; you must also redirect stderr.
> mt -t /dev/mt/tps0d6 status > dum
mt -t /dev/mt/tps0d6 status >& dum
> mt -t /dev/mt/tps0d6 status | grep Status
mt -t /dev/mt/tps0d6 status |& grep Status
> xxx=`mt -t /dev/mt/tps0d6 status`
set xxx = `mt -t /dev/mt/tps0d6 status |& cat`
John H. Merritt --> merritt at iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov
Applied Research Corporation at NASA/GSFC
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