[vox-tech] Where did all my output go? Bash shell question

Jay Strauss me at heyjay.com
Fri Mar 25 06:01:42 PST 2005


Mitch Patenaude wrote:
> Any chance the output is going to stderr and not stdout?  I don't know
> for sure, but I could believe that stderr of commands inside functions
> gets swallowed if not redirected.  Try putting a 2>&1 at the end of
> the svn command in the function.
> 
>   -- Mitch
> 
> P.S.  I think the problem you had with ---verbose was with it's position.  try 
>   svn --verbose co <project>

You're correct, it getting swallowed by stderr, doing as you suggested 
worked like a charm

Thanks
Jay


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