I have a script that askes users to enter in an oracle account and password, The information is displayed on the screen as they type it. Does anyone know how I can hide this output?
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I need to suppress the output to the screen. I am appending to a file so do not need the output on the screen in the CLI environment.
eg.
cat $HOME/somefile >> $HOME/anotherfile
I am doing this a number of times with SQL output files so I can look at the finished file not on the screen in the... (3 Replies)
I need to put the following in a script:
echo $CCPDB will give me the db name on the screen. I need to use this name to tar cvfEh <newtarname> <dbname.exp>. I am not sure how to use the output that display on the screen in a script. I tried this
echo $CCPDB > file didn't work
Gundu (1 Reply)
Is there a way to turn off standard output while processing is going on? I have tried redirecting to /dev/null but that is not working because some of the commands invoke a profile. I would like to temporarily turn off the screen output until the processing is complete. Sort of like a splash... (3 Replies)
I'm a newbie.
I'm having a problem at work with a script. What i'm trying to do is connect to a cisco switch from a sun station. After i run the script and telnet into the switch i don't get any output on the "xterm window" and all my commands from the script don't show up on the screen or on... (0 Replies)
I want to check whether the variable read from the console is number or character , so i used echo $option|grep and checked the reuslt returned by grep cmd using $?
But since I use echo the value is getting printed in the screen , I want to supress the o/p. Can anyone suggest how this can be... (1 Reply)
Is it possible to split the screen and show, lets say a local directory listing on the left and a remote directory listing on the right with shell scripting?
I know it's usually done with curses/ncurses, but I'd really like to keep it simple as possible. I guess 'dialog' command could do it... (1 Reply)
User with moderate experience:
I run a script (my addiction is KSH) that reads a file and reports certain parameters back to the user on screen and also piped to a file. The file(s) I read is/are located under different directories, and is usually called the same thing. Sometimes not. For... (3 Replies)
I am trying to get following result from the scipt I have. First time it generates the o/p in correct format. However if I run it again it appends to the existing file. I would like to see o/p on screen as well as save it in file. Everytime it should create new file.
## I/P file
0174
0175... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to out of shell script when i run it
like
sh /mypath/abc.sh
....a screen log should be generated whenever i input the values, when above the script prompt for values
Regards
Amarendra (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: amar1208
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
sysmsg
sysmsg(7D) Devices sysmsg(7D)NAME
sysmsg - system message routing to console devices
SYNOPSIS
/dev/sysmsg
DESCRIPTION
The file /dev/sysmsg routes output to a variable set of console devices. Writes to /dev/sysmsg are always directed to the system console
/dev/console, and are in addition directed to a set of auxiliary console devices managed by consadm(1M).
Only root has permission to write to this device.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsr |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Stable |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO consadm(1M), syslogd(1M) , attributes(5), console(7D)SunOS 5.10 13 Oct 1998 sysmsg(7D)