[Interest] Redirect stdout to a file

[Alan Ezust]

On linux, you invoke an external command from QProcess that looks like
    bash -c command arg1 arg2 > outFile.txt
and on windows you can do
    cmd /c command arg1 arg2 > outFile.txt

and you can run this detached.

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Scott Aron Bloom <scott.bloom at onshorecs.com
> wrote:

>  Windows and Linux…  I don’t know if it detatches on linux..****
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> I just know that if I manually kill the UI while the CLI version is
> running, Ill have to track it down in the task manager later..****
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>
> Scott****
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> *From:* Yifei Li [mailto:yifli82 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 02, 2013 6:54 AM
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> *To:* Scott Aron Bloom
> *Cc:* interest at qt-project.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Interest] Redirect stdout to a file****
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> Hi Scott,****
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> I'm working on a Mac. How about you? OS probably matters.****
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> Yifei****
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> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Scott Aron Bloom <
> scott.bloom at onshorecs.com> wrote:****
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> Yes that is exactly what I do.. ****
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>  ****
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> *From:* Yifei Li [mailto:yifli82 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, July 1, 2013 7:29 PM****
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> *To:* Scott Aron Bloom
> *Cc:* interest at qt-project.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Interest] Redirect stdout to a file****
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>  ****
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> Hi Scott,****
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>  ****
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> What I'm trying to do is exactly the same as what you did.  ****
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> Can you confirm the following is how you made it?  In my experiment, the
> following way makes the newly created process terminate when the GUI
> crashes. ****
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> QProcess *proc = new QProcess;****
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> connect(proc, SIGNAL(readyReadStandardError()), this SLOT(readStderr()));*
> ***
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> proc->start();****
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> Thanks,****
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>  ****
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> Yifei****
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>  ****
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> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Scott Aron Bloom <
> scott.bloom at onshorecs.com> wrote:****
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>  Im completely confused on what you are trying to do..****
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>  ****
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> I can tell you that, I have a QProcess variable, and I have attached to
> the “stdout/stderr available signals”.. When they trigger, I get the stdout
> and stderr****
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>  ****
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> And if the GUI crtashes while the CLI call is running, the CLI keeps
> running.****
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>
> Scot****
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>  ****
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> *From:* Yifei Li [mailto:yifli82 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, July 01, 2013 3:21 PM****
>
>
> *To:* Scott Aron Bloom
> *Cc:* interest at qt-project.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Interest] Redirect stdout to a file****
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>  ****
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> So is there a way to achieve what I want? -Yifei****
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> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Scott Aron Bloom <
> scott.bloom at onshorecs.com> wrote:****
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> Yes, calling proc.startDetached still calls the static version****
>
>  ****
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> *From:* Yifei Li [mailto:yifli82 at gmail.com] ****
>
> *Sent:* Monday, July 01, 2013 2:53 PM
> *To:* Scott Aron Bloom****
>
> *Cc:* interest at qt-project.org****
>
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Interest] Redirect stdout to a file****
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>  ****
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> I just tried, and it does not work. Redirection only works if
> 'proc->start()'. -Yifei****
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>  ****
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> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Scott Aron Bloom <
> scott.bloom at onshorecs.com> wrote:****
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> Yes…  ****
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> *From:* interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt-project.org [mailto:
> interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt-project.org] *On Behalf Of *Yifei
> Li
> *Sent:* Monday, July 01, 2013 2:25 PM****
>
>
> *To:* interest at qt-project.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Interest] Redirect stdout to a file****
>
>  ****
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> Hi Scott,****
>
>  ****
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> Are you suggesting something as follows? ****
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> QProcess proc;****
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> proc.setStandardOutputFile();****
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> proc.startDetached();****
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>  ****
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> Yifei****
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>  ****
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> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Scott Aron Bloom <
> scott.bloom at onshorecs.com> wrote:****
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> If the goal, is to redirect stdout/stderr, and not have the call block
> (static startDetached).****
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>  ****
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> You can still use the NON-static version of the start method****
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>  ****
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> Scott****
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>  ****
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> *From:* interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt-project.org [mailto:
> interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt-project.org] *On Behalf Of *Yifei
> Li
> *Sent:* Monday, July 01, 2013 1:58 PM
> *To:* interest at qt-project.org****
>
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Interest] Redirect stdout to a file****
>
>  ****
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> I guess dup2 needs to be called by the process, correct? But I can't
> change its src code. - Yifei****
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> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Guido Seifert <wargand at gmx.de> wrote:****
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> If it is only Linux you could use dup2.
>
> Windows? No idea.
>
> Guido****
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> On Mon, 1 Jul 2013 16:31:19 -0400
> Yifei Li <yifli82 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I know this can be done using QProcess::setStandardOutputFile.
> >
> > However, I need to start my process using the static function
> > startDetached, and still want to be able to redirect its stdout/stderr to
> > another file.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Yifei****
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