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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Exporting log file into Excel Post 302507134 by mirni on Tuesday 22nd of March 2011 09:35:57 PM
Old 03-22-2011
cron is the tool to schedule tasks.
Code:
crontab -e

will get you editing the cron; you want to add a line like:
Code:
*/3 * * * * fetchLog.sh

, which is the instruction to run fetchLog.sh every 3 hours. fetchLog.sh needs to be in your path, so that cron can find it (or call with full path).
But if it's that simple, you don't even need a wrapper script.
Code:
*/3 * * * * tail -100 /path/to/log >> capture.txt

would get you logging.
You can generate a comma separated text file (.csv), that can be imported into M$ Excel.
I recommend you look at crontab in more detail; it's not quite trivial and you should have a good understanding of it before you use it.
 

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Test::Excel::Template::Plus(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			  Test::Excel::Template::Plus(3pm)

NAME
Test::Excel::Template::Plus - Testing module for use with Excel::Template::Plus SYNOPSIS
use Test::More tests => 1; use Test::Excel::Template::Plus; my $template = Excel::Template::Plus->new( engine => 'TT', template => 'test.tmpl', config => { INCLUDE => [ '/templates' ] }, params => { ... } ); $template->write_file('test.xls'); # compare the file we just made with # an existing example file ... cmp_excel_files("test.xls", "t/xls/test.xls", '... the excel files matched'); DISCLAIMER
This module is woefully incomplete. It works for my very basic purposes right now, but it is surely going to need lots or work in the future to make it really usable. DESCRIPTION
This module attempts to provide a means of testing and comparing dynamically generated excel files. Currently it only supports comparing two excel files for some approximation of strutural (values within cells) and visual (formatting of said cells) equivalence. As a by product of the implementation, elements may get compared which don't really need comparing, and things which do need comparing may be skipped. This will get refined as time goes by and the module is used in more heavyweight situations. FUNCTIONS
cmp_excel_files($file1, $file2, $msg) BUGS
All complex software has bugs lurking in it, and this module is no exception. If you find a bug please either email me, or add the bug to cpan-RT. AUTHOR
Stevan Little <stevan@iinteractive.com> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2007-2010 by Infinity Interactive, Inc. <http://www.iinteractive.com> This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.14.2 2012-05-06 Test::Excel::Template::Plus(3pm)
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