[Flac-users] directing flac -t output to a file

[Josh Coalson]

--- "David W. Tamkin" <dattier at panix.com> wrote:
> This may be more a question about the pseudo-DOS command line than
> about flac
> itself, but at this point I don't really know.
> 
> How can one direct the output of  flac -t  to a file instead of the
> screen?
> Often I'd like to verify a large number of flac files, and Speek's
> front-end
> is very good for writing up the batch file for that (flac -t itself
> doesn't
> seem to expand wildcards on the command line), but unless I sit glued
> to the
> monitor and watch the output, the results scroll off to be lost
> forever, and
> if I'm not watching when flac reports that a file doesn't verify
> properly (or
> before the next two files are finished), I won't know about it.  It
> would be
> much easier if the output could be directed to a .txt file.
> 
> My attempts to use "> file" and ">> file" have done nothing, even in
> conjunction with the -c option.  Is there a counterpart to the Bourne
> shell's
> "2>file"?

There probably is but I don't know of it.  If you are used
to the Bourne shell then I would strongly recommend getting
Cygwin:

  http://www.cygwin.com/

It comes with bash along with a good chunk of other unix
tools and will make working in windoze slightly more
tolerable.

Josh


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