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LOGSAVE(8)		     System Manager's Manual		      LOGSAVE(8)

NAME
     logsave - save the output of a command in a logfile

SYNOPSIS
     logsave [ -asv ] logfile cmd_prog [ ... ]

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  stan-
     dard 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 logfile

     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.

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.

AUTHOR
     Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu)

SEE ALSO
     fsck(8)

E2fsprogs version 1.47.4	   March 2025			      LOGSAVE(8)

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