Manual: logsave

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 (tytso@mit.edu)

SEE ALSO
       fsck(8)

E2fsprogs version 1.47.2				January 2025						  LOGSAVE(8)