Outputting tar to a File

[Michael42]

How can I send the output of a tar listing to a log file?

I tried this and a few variations:
tar -tvf /dev/rmt/0 2>> tar.log

The results are that it creates a 0 byte file.

What can you suggest?

Thanks!

 

[KenCunningham]

You're copying standard error only to your file. Get rid of the 2, ie:

tar -tvf /dev/rmt/0 >> tar.log

The >> also appends. If you just want to create and overwrite each time use just one >

HTH.

 

[Michael42]

Ken, thanks your suggestion worked great!

 

[iribach]

if you collect also error:
tar tvf /dev/rmt/0 >> tar.log 2>&1
nota: tar does not care about '-' in options-string