Re: Catching error messages

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Cameron Horsburgh escreveu:
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 03:13:36PM -0800, Graham Percival wrote:
>> Cameron Horsburgh wrote:
>>> On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 11:40:45AM -0800, Graham Percival wrote:
>>>> Cameron Horsburgh wrote:
>>>>> I'd love to be able to specify a log file for either each file or the
>>>>> entire run. Does this exist? If not, does anyone have any idea how I
>>>>> might be able to do this?
>>>> for f in *.ly ; do lilypond $f > $f.log ; done;
>>>>
>>>> Something like that, at least.
>>>>
>>> Yeah, that's what I tried first. It seems the output is on stderr,
>>> not stdout.
>> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-3.html
>>
>> lilypond $f &> $f.log
>>
> 
> Yeah, I eventually got that, or something pretty close. It can be pretty
> useful. I might write a page for the docs regarding batch processing.
> The main problem, of course, is that this is OS dependent.
> 
> If I were to do that, where would be the best place to put it? Two
> places come to mind -- first, 4.1.3 might be expanded to suggest using

don't; -dlog-file=foo is the recommended method. -dseparate-log-files if
you need multiple logs.


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