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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Append stderr Post 302423035 by canduc17 on Thursday 20th of May 2010 04:19:03 AM
Old 05-20-2010
The closest solution I have tryed is the following:
Code:
log() {
    while read LINE; do
        echo "$(date) - ${LINE}" >> "${LOGFILE_2}"
    done
}

${command}  >> "${LOGFILE_1}" 2>>"${LOGFILE_2} | log

I obtain the stdout inside $LOGFILE_1 and the stderr inside $LOGFILE_2 BUT without the date before it, as I wanted to.
Simply the log function is not called at all.

Variables $LOGFILE_1 and $LOGFILE_2 are something like
Code:
LOGFILE_1=/home/canduc/file1.log
LOGFILE_2=/home/canduc/file2.log

, so nothing special.

$command is an executable written in C a bit hard to explain what it does...but it prints strings either on stdout and stderr, I think it is enough to describe my problem.

I tryed also with
Code:
log() {
    while read LINE; do
        echo "$(date) - ${LINE}" >> "${LOGFILE_2}"
    done
}

${command} 2>>"${LOGFILE_2} | log

but I obtain the stdout (with date) in the log file and
Code:
log() {
    while read LINE; do
        echo "$(date) - ${LINE}" 2>> "${LOGFILE_2}"
    done
}

${command} 2>>"${LOGFILE_2} | log

(notice the "2>>" inside the function), but I obtain the stderr inside the log, WITHOUT the date.

I think that the problem can be summarized into this question: how to pass the stderr to a function?

Thank you for your patience...
Last edited by canduc17; 05-20-2010 at 06:19 AM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD

who

WHO(1)							    BSD General Commands Manual 						    WHO(1)

NAME

     who -- display who is on the system

SYNOPSIS

     who [-abHmqsTu] [am I] [file]

DESCRIPTION

     The who utility displays information about currently logged in users.  By default, this includes the login name, tty name, date and time of
     login and remote hostname if not local.

     The options are as follows:

     -a      Equivalent to -bTu, with the exception that output is not restricted to the time and date of the last system reboot.

     -b      Write the time and date of the last system reboot.

     -H      Write column headings above the output.

     -m      Show information about the terminal attached to standard input only.

     -q      ``Quick mode'': List the names and number of logged in users in columns.  All other command line options are ignored.

     -s      Show the name, line and time fields only.	This is the default.

     -T      Indicate whether each user is accepting messages.	One of the following characters is written:

	     +	User is accepting messages.
	     -	User is not accepting messages.
	     ?	An error occurred.

     -u      Show idle time for each user in hours and minutes as hh:mm, '.' if the user has been idle less than a minute, and ``old'' if the user
	     has been idle more than 24 hours.

     am I    Equivalent to -m.

     By default, who gathers information from the file /var/run/utx.active.  An alternate file may be specified which is usually /var/log/utx.log
     (or /var/log/utx.log.[0-6] depending on site policy as utx.log can grow quite large and daily versions may or may not be kept around after
     compression by ac(8)).  The utx.log file contains a record of every login, logout, crash, shutdown and date change since utx.log was last
     truncated or created.

     If /var/log/utx.log is being used as the file, the user name may be empty or one of the special characters '|', '}' and '~'.  Logouts produce
     an output line without any user name.  For more information on the special characters, see getutxent(3).

ENVIRONMENT

     The COLUMNS, LANG, LC_ALL and LC_TIME environment variables affect the execution of who as described in environ(7).

FILES

     /var/run/utx.active
     /var/log/utx.log
     /var/log/utx.log.[0-6]

EXIT STATUS

     The who utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

     last(1), users(1), w(1), getutxent(3)

STANDARDS

     The who utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').

HISTORY

     A who command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX.

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