On 8/30/07, Mark Haney <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > bruce wrote: > > hey mark.. > > > > can you list your entire script... > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mark Haney > > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 8:13 AM > > To: For users of Fedora > > Subject: BASh help > > > > > > I can, but then I realized the problem, I wasn't redirecting stderr, > only stdout to the file. The ls output is an error message. Duh. > I've had scripts where I re-direct stdout to one file, and stderr to a different file. so your script would have ls {filename} >output.txt 2>errors.txt And of course double-redirect (>>) for both of them if you are running a loop that must append to an existing file. Jacques B.