I couldn't find any information in a quick search on that command... was it custom script, or one that shipped with SCO?
Either way, do you want it to mail you? If so, you might be able to use something like this:
You can fit this to your needs, of course... Will this work for you?
Keep in mind that I did not test this - I just typed it out... make sure to test it for your needs before using it regularly.
Hi,
i use awk -F to print three variable delimited by comma $1 $2 $3
if $2=="" i want to extract this information missing from another file using awk -v + some process.
but the problem i can't use the two awk together cause of redirection
there's a solution.
note: i can't use another... (1 Reply)
Hello All,
I was wondering is there any other way in Shell Scripting to redirect the errors to a output file inside a shell script with using a error status checking or a command line redirection.
Say without doing this
ksh test.ksh 2> error.txt
or without doing this ...
if ; then... (3 Replies)
my querry is
suppose i have duplicate std i/p with FD-3 --exec 0<&3
now redirected std i/p to a file ----exec 0<file1
suppose i am reading the file line by line --while read LINE
cutting some fields and comparing it with a variable and if a match is found
... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I have a fbackup step as below
/bin/nice /etc/fbackup -f /dev/rmt/0m -i / -I /opt/monitrol/tmp/Index.full
Now the errors that i will get in case of the fbackup step, I want to redirect them to a file. Please help me how to redirect to a file.
Thanks,
Avik. (5 Replies)
Hi all,
I am working with the Grinder tool (unrelated to my question) to redirect the output of a program to a file as follows:
java -cp $CLASSPATH net.grinder.TCPProxy > grinder.txt
This is a proxy server which pipes output to a file. When I do something on my proxy, more and more goes to... (1 Reply)
Suppose I have a file named a
When I write
cat a>a
The following error message is displayed
cat: a: input file is output file
and my file a is truncated to zero size.
Also the exit status of the last command is 1
Can someone tell me what actually happens when I do so? (1 Reply)
i have many questions concerning the FD.
it was stated that "to redirect Error to output std, you have to write the following code"
# ls -alt FileNotThere File > logfile 2>&1
# cat logfile
ls: cannot access FileNotThere: No such file or directory
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-02-26... (9 Replies)
Hello,
I need an input from you all.
I want to redirect the output of 'ls' command to a file
but the file should not display the output file name in it.
scenario:
------------
$pwd
/home/user1
$ls
file1 file2
$ls > file3
$cat file3
file1 file2 file3
In this i dont wish... (6 Replies)
I am struck up with a problem and that is with output redirection.
I used all the ways for the redirection of the output of c binary to a file, still it is failing.
Here are the different ways which I have used:
./a.out | tee -a /root/tmp.txt 2>&1
./a.out | tee -a /root/tmp.txt 1>&1
./a.out |... (2 Replies)
I've got a problem with file redirection in bash, in loop while (in my script done < bufor.txt). In every consecutive iteration there's a possibility that to the bufor.txt will be added some lines. Unfortunately, in loop, added lines are ignored (for example: bufor.txt has 5 lines, in 3rd iteration... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: kk9
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
cat
CAT(1) BSD General Commands Manual CAT(1)NAME
cat -- concatenate and print files
SYNOPSIS
cat [-beflnstuv] [-] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The cat utility reads files sequentially, writing them to the standard output. The file operands are processed in command line order. A
single dash represents the standard input, and may appear multiple times in the file list.
The word ``concatenate'' is just a verbose synonym for ``catenate''.
The options are as follows:
-b Implies the -n option but doesn't number blank lines.
-e Implies the -v option, and displays a dollar sign ('$') at the end of each line as well.
-f Only attempt to display regular files.
-l Set an exclusive advisory lock on the standard output file descriptor. This lock is set using fcntl(2) with the F_SETLKW command.
If the output file is already locked, cat will block until the lock is acquired.
-n Number the output lines, starting at 1.
-s Squeeze multiple adjacent empty lines, causing the output to be single spaced.
-t Implies the -v option, and displays tab characters as '^I' as well.
-u The -u option guarantees that the output is unbuffered.
-v Displays non-printing characters so they are visible. Control characters print as '^X' for control-X; the delete character (octal
0177) prints as '^?'. Non-ascii characters (with the high bit set) are printed as 'M-' (for meta) followed by the character for the
low 7 bits.
EXIT STATUS
The cat utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
The command:
cat file1
will print the contents of file1 to the standard output.
The command:
cat file1 file2 > file3
will sequentially print the contents of file1 and file2 to the file file3, truncating file3 if it already exists. See the manual page for
your shell (i.e., sh(1)) for more information on redirection.
The command:
cat file1 - file2 - file3
will print the contents of file1, print data it receives from the standard input until it receives an EOF ('^D') character, print the con-
tents of file2, read and output contents of the standard input again, then finally output the contents of file3. Note that if the standard
input referred to a file, the second dash on the command-line would have no effect, since the entire contents of the file would have already
been read and printed by cat when it encountered the first '-' operand.
SEE ALSO head(1), hexdump(1), lpr(1), more(1), pr(1), tail(1), view(1), vis(1), fcntl(2)
Rob Pike, "UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful", USENIX Summer Conference Proceedings, 1983.
STANDARDS
The cat utility is expected to conform to the IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'') specification.
The flags [-belnstv] are extensions to the specification.
HISTORY
A cat utility appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX. Dennis Ritchie designed and wrote the first man page. It appears to have been cat(1).
BUGS
Because of the shell language mechanism used to perform output redirection, the command ``cat file1 file2 > file1'' will cause the original
data in file1 to be destroyed! This is performed by the shell before cat is run.
BSD September 23, 2006 BSD