SUMMARY: Question about redirect

Thanks to all ... your responses were greatly appreciated.
"Ya wouldn't  'a thought this would be so hard.."

Original problem:
When using scp with a script I was unable to capture its output.
scp normally returns a 'progress meter' style of message .
This doesn't seem to be able to be redirected in the 
usual manner. 
This would not work:
/usr/local/bin/scp -p /dir/dir/file.tar root@server:/dir/dir/  >/tmp/ouptut
Nor did about 5 other styles of using redirect. 
So at the advice of those acknowledged below I had scp return 
a exit status and crafted a email to be sent accordingly.  

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#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/scp -p /dir/dir/file.tar root@server:/dir/dir/  
hold=$?
if [ $hold = 0 ];
then
echo "Files transferred" >/tmp/output
/bin/mailx -s "File Transfer "  me@msu.edu </tmp/output
else
echo "File transfer has failed" >/tmp/output
/bin/mailx -s "File Transfer Failed"  me@msu.edu </tmp/output
fi
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David Morris <davey@arklight.demon.co.uk>
system administration account <sysadmin@astro.su.se>
Darren Dunham <ddunham@taos.com>

Thanks to All

-- 
Steve Devine   
Michigan State University



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To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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