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diff --git a/misc/logsave.8.in b/misc/logsave.8.in new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cc3ffde --- /dev/null +++ b/misc/logsave.8.in @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +.\" -*- nroff -*- +.\" Copyright 2003 by Theodore Ts'o. All Rights Reserved. +.\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License. +.\" +.TH LOGSAVE 8 "@E2FSPROGS_MONTH@ @E2FSPROGS_YEAR@" "E2fsprogs version @E2FSPROGS_VERSION@" +.SH NAME +logsave \- save the output of a command in a logfile +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B logsave +[ +.B \-asv +] +.I logfile cmd_prog [ ... ] +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.B logsave +program will execute +.I cmd_prog +with the specified argument(s), and save a copy of its output to +.IR logfile . +If the containing directory for +.I logfile +does not exist, +.B 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. +.PP +If +.I cmd_prog +is a single hyphen ('-'), then instead of executing a program, +.B logsave +will take its input from standard input and save it in +.I logfile +.PP +.B 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. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.B \-a +This option will cause the output to be appended to +.IR logfile , +instead of replacing its current contents. +.TP +.B \-s +This option will cause +.B 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. +.TP +.B \-v +This option will make +.B logsave +to be more verbose in its output to the user. +.SH AUTHOR +Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu) +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR fsck (8) |