2 .\" Copyright 2003 by Theodore Ts'o. All Rights Reserved.
3 .\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License.
5 .TH LOGSAVE 8 "@E2FSPROGS_MONTH@ @E2FSPROGS_YEAR@" "E2fsprogs version @E2FSPROGS_VERSION@"
7 logsave \- save the output of a command in a logfile
13 .I logfile cmd_prog [ ... ]
19 with the specified argument(s), and save a copy of its output to
21 If the containing directory for
25 will accumulate the output in memory until it can be written out.
26 A copy of the output will also be written to standard output.
30 is a single hyphen ('-'), then instead of executing a program,
32 will take its input from standard input and save it in
36 is useful for saving the output of initial boot scripts
37 until the /var partition is mounted, so the output can be written to
42 This option will cause the output to be appended to
44 instead of replacing its current contents.
47 This option will cause
49 to skip writing to the log file text which is bracketed with a control-A
50 (ASCII 001 or Start of Header) and control-B (ASCII 002 or Start of
51 Text). This allows progress bar information to be visible to the user
52 on the console, while not being written to the log file.
57 to be more verbose in its output to the user.
59 Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu)