Currently I'm working on a lenghty script so I figured it would be useful to create a logfile so that output that is displayed on the users screen is also stored in the log file for later reference...... kinda like the whole point of a log file! Anyway, I was just wondering if there was an easier way to modify my existing code without having to duplicate every "echo" command and redirect the duplicated "echo" command to the log.
Example:
I figure there must be a way to do this without having to duplicate each line but not sure how. Any help would great.
Hello,
Is is possible to redirect stdout to a file as well as to the console/screen or display in ksh.
any thoughts suggestions/input is appreciated. Thanks. (2 Replies)
I am trying to write a script that will remove any line in 2 given text files
starting with '-'.
the output should be to the second file.
this is what I tried:
#!/bin/csh -f
cat $1 $2 | grep -v '^-' > $2
the problem is the after executing the script, file2 contains only the
lines from... (7 Replies)
I'm redirecting the output of a command to a logfile, however, if the user is on a terminal I would also like the output to be displayed on the screen.
tar tvf some_tarfile >Logfile
if the user is on a term then have the output to the Logfile and also be displayed on the screen at the same... (2 Replies)
Hi there
I have a script that runs but it outputs everything onto the screen instead of a file.
I've tried using the > outputfile.txt however all it does is dump the output to the screen and creates an outputfile.txt but doesn't put anything in that file.
Any help would be appreciated
... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
i m facing very strange problem . like suppose i am in one directory and then i type ls
it will display the content of directory then i redirect the output as
sneha-pardus $ ls > test
sneha-pardus $ cat test
a.sh b.sh c.sh
sneha-pardus $ awk ' { print $1 } ' test > test... (3 Replies)
We have an application here that does some table queries and then prints the result on screen. I do not have the code of this application (which i will just call "queryCommand"), but what it does is that you call it with some parameters and it prints some info about the query and then the... (5 Replies)
Hello i am trying to write a script that will redirect the output to a certain file. Here is the code so far:
#!/bin/bash
ps -e | sort | more > psfile
When I execute the script nothing happens since i assume the output was redirected to the file called psfile. When I try to look at the... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am using AIX server. I have a korn shell script where in I am redirecting a line to a file in a while loop:
while read line
do
outputline=$line;
echo $outputline >> "./temp/exec_list_"$ETL_JOB_RUN"_temp"
done < ./temp/exec_list_$ETL_JOB_RUN
Sometimes, when the CPU... (2 Replies)
Hi
I am making a script where i want to redirect the output of ls -l to a file
Example
#ls -l fil1.txt > /opt/temp/a.txt
ac: No such file or directory
I want to capture output of this command
like here output is
ac: No such file or directory
can anyone help (4 Replies)
Hi all
I was wondering if there was a slicker way of doing this without the file -
awk '{print $2}' FS=":" "${FILE}" > "${TMPFILE}"
{
read M_GRP_ID || m_fail 1 "Error: Read failed 1 (${FUNCNAME})"
read M_GRP_WAIT || m_fail 1 "Error: Read failed 2 (${FUNCNAME})"
}... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: steadyonabix
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
echo
echo(3XCURSES) X/Open Curses Library Functions echo(3XCURSES)NAME
echo, noecho - enable/disable terminal echo
SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include -L /usr/xpg4/lib
-R /usr/xpg4/lib -lcurses [ library... ]
c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ]
#include <curses.h>
int echo(void);
int noecho(void);
DESCRIPTION
The echo() function enables Echo mode for the current screen. The noecho() function disables Echo mode for the current screen. Initially,
curses software echo mode is enabled and hardware echo mode of the tty driver is disabled. The echo() and noecho() functions control soft-
ware echo only. Hardware echo must remain disabled for the duration of the application, else the behavior is undefined.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, these functions return OK. Otherwise, they return ERR.
ERRORS
No errors are defined.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT-Level |Unsafe |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO getch(3XCURSES), getstr(3XCURSES), initscr(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), scanw(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.11 5 Jun 2002 echo(3XCURSES)