Output of last shell command

Question

Not until midway through a 3 hour build script, I\'ll remember that I want to see something at the beginning of the output after it\'s done. At this point I\'ve exceeded th

Answer 1

No. The output of a program never passes through the shell's hands. Without redirection, it goes straight to the TTY. With redirection, it goes straight to whatever file or pipe it was directed to. The shell has no idea what the process sent to stdout/stderr.