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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How do I capture multiple lines of the status output of a command? Post 302326858 by zzz1528 on Friday 19th of June 2009 04:02:46 AM
Old 06-19-2009
How do I capture multiple lines of the status output of a command?

I need to know what the upload speed of an Internet connection. I thought the easiest way to do this would be to transfer a file via FTP to my server using the command:
Code:
sh-3.2$ ftp -u ftp://username:password@computerdomain/directory/ file_to_be_uploaded

Note: My environment allows me to issue ONLY 1 line of code. That line of code can have multiple commands seperated by a semi-colon( ; ).

The above command works great in terminal. It uploads the file and gives me lots of text to tell me what is going on:
Quote:
230 User username logged in.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
200 Type set to I.
250 CWD command successful.
local: file_to_be_uploaded remote: file_to_be_uploaded
502 'EPSV': command not understood.
227 Entering Passive Mode (69,13,207,4,232,153)
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for .
100% |*************************************| 905 KB 200.51 KB/s 00:00 ETA
226 Transfer complete.
927204 bytes sent in 00:05 (173.23 KB/s)
I'm after that last line in the form:
x bytes sent in mm:ss (y KB/s)

I want to obtain the value for y. I thought the way to do this would be to send the output to a text file:
Code:
sh-3.2$ ftp -u ftp://username:password@computerdomain/directory/ file_to_be_uploaded > ftpupload.txt

Problem is, all I get in ftpupload.txt is a previous line that has some useless error on it:
Quote:
502 'EPSV': command not understood.
How can I get the contents of the last line so I know what the upload throughput is?

OR, can someone tell me a better way to do this?

Rob
 

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DDB(8)							    BSD System Manager's Manual 						    DDB(8)

NAME
ddb -- configure DDB kernel debugger properties SYNOPSIS
ddb capture [-M -core] [-N -system] print ddb capture [-M -core] [-N -system] status ddb script scriptname ddb script scriptname=script ddb scripts ddb unscript scriptname ddb pathname DESCRIPTION
The ddb utility configures certain aspects of the ddb(4) kernel debugger from user space that are not configured at compile-time or easily via sysctl(8) MIB entries. To ease configuration, commands can be put in a file which is processed using ddb as shown in the last synopsis line. An absolute pathname must be used. The file will be read line by line and applied as arguments to the ddb utility. Whitespace at the beginning of lines will be ignored as will lines where the first non-whitespace character is '#'. OUTPUT CAPTURE
The ddb utility can be used to extract the contents of the ddb(4) output capture buffer of the current live kernel, or from the crash dump of a kernel on disk. The following debugger commands are available from the command line: capture [-M core] [-N system] print Print the current contents of the ddb(4) output capture buffer. capture [-M core] [-N system] status Print the current status of the ddb(4) output capture buffer. SCRIPTING
The ddb utility can be used to configure aspects of ddb(4) scripting from user space; scripting support is described in more detail in ddb(4). Each of the debugger commands is available from the command line: script scriptname Print the script named scriptname. script scriptname=script Define a script named scriptname. As many scripts contain characters interpreted in special ways by the shell, it is advisable to enclose script in quotes. scripts List currently defined scripts. unscript scriptname Delete the script named scriptname. EXIT STATUS
The ddb utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. EXAMPLES
The following example defines a script that will execute when the kernel debugger is entered as a result of a break signal: ddb script kdb.enter.break="show pcpu; bt" The following example will delete the script: ddb unscript kdb.enter.break For further examples, see the ddb(4) and textdump(4) manual pages. SEE ALSO
ddb(4), textdump(4), sysctl(8) HISTORY
The ddb utility first appeared in FreeBSD 7.1. AUTHORS
Robert N M Watson BUGS
Ideally, ddb would not exist, as all pertinent aspects of ddb(4) could be configured directly via sysctl(8). BSD
December 24, 2008 BSD
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