----- "Miller Joshua J" <MillerJoshuaJ at JohnDeere.com> wrote: > /scratch/jm70674a/FORTE/mpich2-1.0.8p1/configure \ 2>&1 | tee c.txt If you are using bourne related shell, e.g. bash, just do ...../mpich2-xxx/configure 2>&1 | tee c.txt The "\" is continuation character for script. A.Chan