LOGSAVE(8) manual page
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logsave - save the output of a command in a logfile
logsave
[ -asv ] logfile cmd_prog [ ... ]
The logsave program will execute
cmd_prog with the specified argument(s), and save a copy of its output
to logfile. If the containing directory for logfile does not exist, logsave
will accumulate the output in memory until it can be written out. A copy
of the output will also be written to standard output.
If cmd_prog is a
single hyphen (’-’), then instead of executing a program, logsave will take
its input from standard input and save it in logfile
logsave is useful
for saving the output of initial boot scripts until the /var partition
is mounted, so the output can be written to /var/log.
- -a
- This option
will cause the output to be appended to logfile, instead of replacing
its current contents.
- -s
- This option will cause logsave to skip writing
to the log file text which is bracketed with a control-A (ASCII 001 or
Start of Header) and control-B (ASCII 002 or Start of Text). This allows
progress bar information to be visible to the user on the console, while
not being written to the log file.
- -v
- This option will make logsave to be
more verbose in its output to the user.
Theodore Ts’o (tytso@mit.edu)
fsck(8)
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