<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Have you set the filetype in vim?<div>set ft=sh </div><div><br></div><div>does the syntax highlighting work then?</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 21, 2014, at 12:35 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>For years I have been using the following technique to capture output (stdout and stderr), for emailing the results.<br><br>(<br></div><div>command <br>command<br>if [ ....<br></div><div> command<br></div>
<div>else <br></div><div> command<br></div><div>fi<br>...<br></div><div>) 2>&1 > /tmp/logfile<br><br></div><div>Basically, the () is a subshell, and its output is captured.<br><br>Then the logfile can be kept or sent via email from the same script, often conditionally if there are errors e.g.:<br>
<br></div><div>mail -s "script output" <a href="mailto:me@example.com">me@example.com</a> < /tmp/logfile<br><br></div><div>The only thing that is annoying is that vim syntax highlighting gets thrown off for the stuff in between the ().<br>
<br></div><div>Anyone knows of a way around this? Either alternates to capturing output<br><br></div><div>I thought about the script command:<br><br>script -c myscript /tmp/logfile<br><br>But then I have to break every script into two files, one a wrapper that runs the real script and emails its output and the script proper itself. Also, it annoyingly captures everything like terminal escape codes and such.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Another approach is to fix vim syntax highlight, but I don't know how.<br><br></div><div>Any ideas?<br clear="all"></div><div>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com/" target="_blank">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br>
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