Since you don't really give the details I would bet that you're expecting cdrecord to print only on stdout but it probably prints to stderr as well. Capture stdout and stderr to a file and see if that is what you expect. cdrecord -scanbus 2>&1 myfile Richard On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:44:09 -0500, David Curry <dsccable@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Reference materials on commands and features of BASH that I have > consulted include material stating that a line command in the form > > $ command [options] [directory (if different than the current directory) > ] > [filename] > > will re-direct the output of the command from stdout to the named file. > > In evaluating the installation of FC2 on my PC (box?), I have noticed a > difference between outputs sent to stdout and outputs to > [filenames]. > > Is this a bug? > > To illustrate, cdrecord -scanbus > scanbus.txt on my machine produces > the following text file. > > listing of scanbus.txt: > Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 > Jörg Schilling > Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support > > Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. > Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla > Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. > Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. > scsibus1: > 1,0,0 100) 'ATAPI ' 'CD-R/RW 24X10 ' 'P.MJ' Removable CD-ROM > 1,1,0 101) 'LITEON ' 'CD-ROM LTN301 ' 'MM07' Removable CD-ROM > 1,2,0 102) * > 1,3,0 103) * > 1,4,0 104) * > 1,5,0 105) * > 1,6,0 106) * > 1,7,0 107) * > > Output of cdrecord -scanbus directed to stdout reads > > Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling > Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support > Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. > Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla > Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. > scsidev: 'ATA' > devname: 'ATA' > scsibus: -2 target: -2 lus: -2 > Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 > Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. > cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). > scsibus1: > 1,0,0 100) 'ATAPI ' 'CD-R/RW 24X10 ' 'P.MJ' Removable CD-ROM > cdrecord: warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. > 1,1,0 101) 'LITEON ' 'CD-ROM LTN301 ' 'MM07' Removable CD-ROM > 1,2,0 102) * > 1,3,0 103) * > 1,4,0 104) * > 1,5,0 105) * > 1,6,0 106) * > 1,7,0 107) * > > There are six more lines of output sent to the display screen than are sent to a file via use of the > [filename] option in BASH. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
