Using the watch command, is there a way to echo the output to a logfile?
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I run root-tail on my desktop and would like to see the result show up their.
Generically speaking, what is the bash script syntax that will echo any output that normally wouldn't be displayed--I know it's broad and vague, sorry.
If there's output, it will be displayed unless you (or the application) redirect the output somewhere else, or if there's no controlling terminal.
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Lastly, does anyone know which logfile has the unix/linux system main console?
Check the files in /var/log/ and the dmesg command
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If I'm not mistaken doesn't every application echo something somewhere?
No.
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E.g. when you launch say firefox from the bash prompt you all kinds of output, isn't this and all aps echo some kind of content to a "core" log file?
I'm sure I'm doing something wrong but as I am new to bash shell scripting I'm not sure what:
Here's the code
webalizer.conf is sitting in the same directory as this file which is named webalizer.sh. Can someone tell me if I've got the syntax right -- it that's correct? I'm executing the... (3 Replies)
Hi guys, I'm new to the forum so forgive me if I'm sounding ... daft.
I currently work in a Tech Support role. Every day we have to generate data by running around 10 .sh scripts. I was thinking instead of having to ./filename 10 times is it possible to right a new script that will run these for... (16 Replies)
I am writing a shell script in bash one of the thing I want to show is size of export /home
du -sk /export/home/oracle | cut -c 1-5
echo "kbytes"
when I run the script kbytes shows up in the second line, How can I append kbytes on the same line, such as
61233 kbytes
please guide
thanks (2 Replies)
I have a bash script, but it needs to have a simple protection with password.
So if a user wants to run the script , there should be a kdialog to asks for a password.If the password is correct the script starts to run.
It should not be the passord of root or another admin user.Just a password in... (2 Replies)
to gather the cpu utilization from a system in 5 minute intervals and direct output to file.
I'm new at scripting and while this seems like an easy task I'm confused on where to start. thanks for any help (1 Reply)
Hi to everyone here,
I'm a new user and relatively-new linuxer.
I'm trying to write a script that checks if every file from a directory is present in a given list and if not, delete it.
should be simple. But I think I've done half the work only:
this is to create the reference list:
for c... (2 Replies)
This is the command. Assume file1 exists but file2 does not:
ls file1 file2 >newfile 2>&1
This simply makes a text file with two lines: file1 \n file2 could not be found. What I don't understand is that when you run this command: ls file1 file2 >newfile, it prints "file2 could not be found" to... (1 Reply)
I have a text file called file1 which contains the text: "ls -l"
When I enter this command:
bash < file1 > file1
file1 gets erased. However if I enter this command:
bash < file1 > newfile
the output from "ls -l" is stored in newfile. My question is why doesn't file1's text ("ls -l") get... (3 Replies)
Hello all!
This is my first post and I'm very new to programming. I would like help creating a simple perl or bash script that I will be using in my work as a junior bioinformatician.
Essentially, I would like to take a tab-delimted or .csv text with 3 columns and write them to a "3D" matrix:
... (16 Replies)
Well I searched the net with varying success, but it seems kinda hard to find a one/max 2 lined command to:
strip all *.png files in the folder from their first two characters.
Any help is appreciated.
In DOS commandline of course... (17 Replies)
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repeat
textutil::repeat(n) Text and string utilities, macro processing textutil::repeat(n)
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NAME
textutil::repeat - Procedures to repeat strings.
SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8.2
package require textutil::repeat ?0.7?
::textutil::repeat::strRepeat text num
::textutil::repeat::blank num
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
The package textutil::repeat provides commands to generate long strings by repeating a shorter string many times.
The complete set of procedures is described below.
::textutil::repeat::strRepeat text num
This command returns a string containing the text repeated num times. The repetitions are joined without characters between them. A
value of num <= 0 causes the command to return an empty string.
Note: If the Tcl core the package is loaded in provides the command string repeat then this command will be implemented in its
terms, for maximum possible speed. Otherwise a fast implementation in Tcl will be used.
::textutil::repeat::blank num
A convenience command. Returns a string of num spaces.
BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems. Please report such in the category textutil
of the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883]. Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for
either package and/or documentation.
SEE ALSO
regexp(n), split(n), string(n)
KEYWORDS
blanks, repetition, string
CATEGORY
Text processing
textutil 0.7.1 textutil::repeat(n)