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| author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2003-04-16 14:05:06 -0400 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2003-04-16 14:05:06 -0400 |
| commit | bc34d6be65cb93a65451ad209cfea2f98b03fd22 (patch) | |
| tree | 0dfd21f1f47ff6194700ed20257cffacfe939353 /misc/logsave.8.in | |
| parent | b00bc4dc6d6538fa29197980efc3c12dd5a6da27 (diff) | |
| download | e2fsprogs-bc34d6be65cb93a65451ad209cfea2f98b03fd22.tar.gz | |
* Add support for the -a and -s options to logsave.
* Change e2fsck to bracket its progress bar output with ctrl-A and ctrl-B
characters, so that logsave -s can omit writing the progress bar output
to the log file.
Diffstat (limited to 'misc/logsave.8.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | misc/logsave.8.in | 27 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/misc/logsave.8.in b/misc/logsave.8.in index 0455cd07..f0fbe412 100644 --- a/misc/logsave.8.in +++ b/misc/logsave.8.in @@ -8,15 +8,15 @@ logsave \- save the output of a command in a logfile .SH SYNOPSIS .B logsave [ -.B \-v +.B \-asv ] -.I logfile command [ ... ] +.I logfile cmd_prog [ ... ] .SH DESCRIPTION The .B logsave program will execute -.I command -with the specified argument, and save a copy of its output to +.I cmd_prog +with the specified argument(s), and save a copy of its output to .IR logfile . If the containing directory for .I logfile @@ -26,10 +26,11 @@ will accumulate the output in memory until it can be written out. A copy of the output will also be written to standard output. .PP If -.I command +.I cmd_prog is a single hyphen ('-'), then instead of executing a program, .B logsave -will take the input from standard input. +will take its input from standard input and save it in +.I logfile .PP .B logsave is useful for saving the output of initial boot scripts @@ -40,12 +41,20 @@ until the /var partition is mounted, so the output can be written to .B \-a This option will cause the output to be appended to .IR logfile , -instead of replacing the current contents. +instead of replacing its current contents. +.TP +.B \-s +This option will cause +.B 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. .TP .B \-v -This option will +This option will make .B logsave -more verbose. +to be more verbose in its output to the user. .SH AUTHOR Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu) .SH SEE ALSO |