On 12/09/06, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> wrote: > Will McDonald wrote: > > I'd send STDOUT and STDERR to separate logs for brevity's sake. > > Something like... > > > > tar czvf $destfile $tobetarred > /tmp/tarlog.std 2> /tmp/tarlog.err > > If you want to have it brief - why the "v"? Pedant. :) What I *meant* was then all the errors would be in one place, all the standard messages in an other, which is kinda brevity. Will.