Re: Madplay capture output to file - how to?

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:38:27PM +0100, Gurpal S. Bhachu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wish to capture the output of madplay to an external file eg:
> 
> $ madplay abc.mp3 -o abc.wav > abc.txt
> 
> It seems that abc.txt contains nothing! Is there some weird non standard
> out thing happening here?
> Please could someone advise how to do this...

madplay is outputting on stderr instead of stdout.  You can redirect stderr
to stdout with the directive '2>&1', so:
$ madplay abc.mp3 -o abc.wav 2>&1 > abc.txt 
will work.
Or you can direct stderr directly to abc.txt:
$ madplay abc.mp3 -o abc.wav 2>abc.txt

This is quite useful for other console programs that output on stderr.

Ian