Linux – Pipe stderr and stdout to different commands (not just to files)

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I'm making a backup script for ldap. I want the errors to go to a file in /var/log and the output to go to another file in the backup folder. Currently I'm redirecting to a temp file and then sending the temp file to the log. I'd rather do this as a 1 liner though…

/usr/bin/ldapsearch -x -LLL -b "dc=contoso,dc=com" "(objectclass=*)" -h ldap.server -v 2>>/tmp/ldaptmp.err |
  gzip -c > /mnt/backups/ldap/`date +\%Y\%m\%d`.ldif.gz || 
  logger -t ldapbackup -p local6.err error exit $?

cat /tmp/ldaptmp.err | grep -v "ldap_initialize( ldap://ldap.server )" | 
  grep -v "filter: (objectclass=\*)" |
  grep -v "requesting: All userApplication attributes" >$ERR_LOG
rm -f /tmp/ldaptmp.err

Any ideas on how to redirect stderr and stdout to different pipes to condense this command into 1 line? Or is there a better way?

Best Answer

As indicated by this answer at Unix SE:

MyWeirdCommand.sh

#!/bin/bash
echo "1 2   3"
echo "4 5   6" >&2

testRedirection.sh:

#!/bin/bash
(./MyWeirdCommand.sh | cut -f1 >stdout.log) 3>&1 1>&2 2>&3 | cut -f3 >stderr.log

Running yields:

  • stderr.log 6

  • stdout.log 1

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