Re: [exim] .forward and pipes.

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Author: Bruce Bowler
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] .forward and pipes.
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:12:57 -0400
Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle@???> put fingers to keyboard and
said:

>On Monday, August 20, 2012 11:36:09, Bruce Bowler wrote:
>> I have set up my .forward file to look like this...
>>
>> # exim filter
>> unseen pipe "/path/to/command"
>>
>> And when I receive a message, the bash file 'command' is run, as
>> expected. However, somewhere deep within the bowels of 'command', I
>> have an error and not everything is completing as expected. I
>> suspect it's a path problem, but don't know that for sure. Is there
>> a way to get any output from 'command' either saved as a file on
>> disk (I tried appending &> file.txt, to no avail)
>
>Just to double-check -- do you mean you did:
>
> command > file.txt 2>&1
>
>i.e. you also redirected the error output to file.txt?
>
> -- Chris


command &> file.txt

which in bash should send both stdout and stderr to file.txt

file.txt never appears, even when given a complete path. I know
there's output from the script as there are some echo commands that I
put in to help figure out where it's mucking up...

Bruce