[Linux-disciples] write to file from shell script

[Stephen R Laniel]

What happens if you just dump that output to stdout? Only dump the first few lines, à la

gondor sqldump primary | head

What happens then?

On Nov 15, 2011, at 9:28 PM, Jamie Forrest wrote:

> What am I doing wrong? I am trying to write to a file from within a
> shell script, but the file doesn't get created. Here's the script:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> NOW=`date +%F`
> gondor sqldump primary > $NOW_dump.sql
> 
> 
> (For what it's worth gondor sqldump is a command that dumps a remote
> database to sql (primary is the db instance). Generally when I run it
> from the cmd line I just run gondor sqldump primary >
> whatever_dump.sql and all is fine. I know this command is running ok
> because I see its output "Dumping database... [ok]" when I run the
> script.)
> 
> Thanks,
> Jamie
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