Subject: Re: bug#8408: A possible tee bug?
From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
To: George Goffe <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 01:05:17 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 01/04/11 23:36, George Goffe wrote:
> Alan,
> 
> Oops. I goofed... My apologies.
> 
> The example would be this "somescript | tee somescript.log 2>&1".
> 
> The intent is to capture all the output (stdout and stderr) from
> "somescript". "somescript" runs several commands that may or may not utilize
> other FDs.

somescript 2>&1 | tee log

> I was hoping to get a better output than what you might get from
> the script command which records all the messages + a ton of other things
> like escapes which are a pain to eliminate.

You could also try using `script` and then
later filtering the output through something like
http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ansi2html.sh

cheers,
Pádraig