LOGSAVE(8)		    System Manager's Manual		    LOGSAVE(8)

NAME
       logsave - save the output of a command in a logfile

SYNOPSIS
       logsave [ -asv ] logfile cmd_prog [ ... ]

DESCRIPTION
       The logsave program will execute cmd_prog with the specified
       argument(s), and save a copy of its output to logfile.  If the
       containing directory for logfile does not exist, logsave will
       accumulate the output in memory until it can be written out.  A copy of
       the output will also be written to standard output.

       If cmd_prog is a single hyphen ('-'), then instead of executing a
       program, logsave will take its input from standard input and save it in
       logfile

       logsave is useful for saving the output of initial boot scripts until
       the /var partition is mounted, so the output can be written to
       /var/log.

OPTIONS
       -a     This option will cause the output to be appended to logfile,
	      instead of replacing its current contents.

       -s     This option will cause logsave to skip writing to the log file
	      text which is bracketed with a control-A (ASCII 001 or Start of
	      Header) and control-B (ASCII 002 or Start of Text).  This allows
	      progress bar information to be visible to the user on the
	      console, while not being written to the log file.

       -v     This option will make logsave to be more verbose in its output
	      to the user.

AUTHOR
       Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu)

SEE ALSO
       fsck(8)

E2fsprogs version 1.47.3	   July 2025			    LOGSAVE(8)