Jeff Learman <jjlearman@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 14:49, Ariel Elkin <ariel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 _______________________________________________ Sox-users mailing list Sox-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-users
