Re: Piping output of sox to a file produces empty text

Jeff Learman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.sox
Message-ID <CAGyjer6VRPtK4vWhH+oKhrhuyaoD=qF+jas4-+opn+oZf07ZJQ@mail.gmail.com>
I didn't check, but perhaps sox text output is going to stderr.  For
Linux/UNIX, using many shells (sh, ksh, tsh, zsh, bash, but not csh),
redirect stderr this way:

sox file.mp3 -n stat > file.txt 2>&1

Jeff

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 14:49, Ariel Elkin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I’d like to save the output of the stat command to a file.
>
> When I call
> sox file.mp3 -n stat
>
> The output is correctly displayed. But If I then do
> sox file.mp3 -n stat > file.txt
>
> file.txt is empty.
>
> Why?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ariel
>
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