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LOGSAVE(8)                                     System Manager's Manual                                     LOGSAVE(8)



NAME
       logsave - save the output of a command in a logfile

SYNOPSIS
       logsave [ -asv ] logfile cmd_prog [ ... ]

DESCRIPTION
       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.

OPTIONS
       -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.

AUTHOR
       Theodore Ts'o ([email protected])

SEE ALSO
       fsck(8)



E2fsprogs version 1.42.9                            December 2013                                          LOGSAVE(8)