Question

In My Shell Script I am trying to push the scp output to a log file.Below is the code snippet.On Command line I can see the logs but The scp logs are not pushed into the file .What can be the reason ?

FTP_LOG = "Log.txt"
scp -v ${feedFile} ${USER}@${DESTINATION}:inbox >> ${FTP_LOG}

Please help me on this as I can see that there are other people who faced the same issue when I google.

The other issue is that the last returned code after scp command doesnt really say if the file transfer was a success.Even when the file transfer fails I get the last return code as indicatng success.

Answer 1

-v outputs to STDERR not STDOUT. You want 2>> not >>