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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Run several commands at a time Post 302228319 by vidyadhar85 on Saturday 23rd of August 2008 11:55:22 PM
Old 08-24-2008
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Originally Posted by agasamapetilon
Hello guys, I am new at shell scripting and I want to create a script that runs several commands at a time, ie: uptime, w, df -h and so on and send the output of this commands to a text file so it can be send via email at a certain time using crontab.

Any help will be much appreciated!
all these commands should be run at a time??
use at command or run each command in background..
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

uptime

uptime(1)							   User Commands							 uptime(1)

NAME

       uptime - show how long the system has been up

SYNOPSIS

       uptime

DESCRIPTION

       The uptime command prints the current time, the length of time the system has been up, and the average number of jobs in the run queue over
       the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. It is, essentially,  the first line of a w(1) command.

EXAMPLES

       Below is an example of the output uptime provides:

	 example% uptime
	 10:47am  up 27 day(s), 50 mins,  1 user,  load average: 0.18, 0.26, 0.20

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------------------------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE		      ATTRIBUTE VALUE		   |
       |Availability		      SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------------------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       w(1), who(1), whodo(1M), attributes(5)

NOTES

       who -b gives the time the system was last booted.

SunOS 5.11							    18 Mar 1994 							 uptime(1)
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