Hi Maddy,
shouldn't you be able to redirect the stdout/console using the pipe 
(command | redirected-output) in Linux/UNIX to dump any output to a file?

Just asking, I'm not that much of a UNIX guy, but I saw something like 
this before...

HTH,
        Ragnar


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