-- Michael Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Wednesday, 29 January 2003, 10:48 AM -0600):
> I am not sure how to ask for what I want here. But, here goes. I was using
> dump to make a backup of a directory on my computer. This was started from
> a terminal in X. As it was running I could see in the terminal window all
> the status output from the program. Good. This backup job took a long time
> to complete and so I went home while the backup was still running. When at
> home I ssh'd into the box to see if the dump process was still running, it
> was. Then I got to thinking, how can I see the output of this program in my
> current ssh session? Is there a program that exists to allow me to redirect
> the output of a program running in a terminal to another terminal? I hope I
> am explaining this clearly.
redirect output to a file:
dump > somefile
and then you can look at 'somefile' to see what's been happening, or use
'tail -f somefile' to see it happening in 'realtime'.
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
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