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

Måns Rullgård <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.sox
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jeff Learman <[email protected]> writes:

>> 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?
>
> 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

Per the man page, "The information is output to the `standard error'
(stderr) stream."

-- 
Måns Rullgård


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