logsave - save the output of a command in a logfile
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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 logfilelogsave 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.
Name
logsave - save the output of a command in a logfile
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.
See Also
fsck(8) E2fsprogs version 1.47.2 January 2025 LOGSAVE(8)
Synopsis
logsave [ -asv ] logfilecmd_prog[...]
