First off, don't give a filename after -a, since one isn't expected there. -a tells it to append, but you still need -o to tell it which file.
Second, you don't need to open the same file 300 times to put 300 things in it. Try this:
Thanks for the help, I always learn something new here.
I added a few things to the code you posted,
and this runs without error, but the the time data is still to cout and does not end up in the file. Everything else ends up in test_times.txt as expected.
I will probably end up with a double loop on SIZE and CPDS, but I need to get the single instance working first. I tried adding the same -o filename after the time command, but I still get the -o: command not found error.
Hello All,
I am trying to write a script that would capture the output of time command on a Sun machine.
I have tried these commands
$ time ls > out
$ time ls 2> out
I just get the ls output in the out file for the first one.
Thanks for any help
Chuck (2 Replies)
hi,
i wat to get the output of a grep command in a file. but when i am trying out the same grep command in the unix prompt its working fine.. i am getting the output properly.. but when i am writing the same command inside my shell script , its just creating a new output file with no contents... (11 Replies)
what does the '+' sign stand for on the output of ls command on cygwin?
-rw-------+ 1 milhan None 146783 Jun 19 12:10 schedule.pdf
-rw-------+ 1 milhan None 320 Aug 15 17:14 current.txt
-rw------- 1 milhan None 24576 Dec 28 2008 fdfd.txt (2 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
Can anyone please tell me, how can I redirect the grep command output to same file. I am trying with below command but my original file contains no data after executing the command.
$grep pattern file1 > file1
Kind Regards,
Eswar (5 Replies)
When i use the command to check the preview of the filesets to be installed using CLI
# When using this commad 'm able to see all Preview view of the filesets to be installed
installp -apgX -d "." all
# When I redirected the same output to a file 'm able to see only half the details... (1 Reply)
Hello,
In my make file (make 3.81), I use a combination of shell commands to automatically create the name of my build directory.
OS := $(shell uname -s)
ARCH := $(shell uname -m)
KERN := $(shell uname -r | cut -d. -f 1,2)
BDIR := $(OS)_$(KERN).$(ARCH)When I boot into different OSs, I... (7 Replies)
Hi
can anyone tell me how to redirect the ouput of a cvs command to a file as well as the console?
i tried using
cvs add <filename> | tee logFile
cvs add <filename> 2>logFile 2>&1
All i could get is only on console or on file.
Please help
Thanks (2 Replies)
Hi, although I am not expert in bash, so please forgive me if this is silly, I think that this is strange:
I have this command:
find . -type f -print0 |xargs -0 grep -i -e 'some rexp'
and it works fine. But when I create a bash script (on cygwin) to run this command, there is no output !!!... (3 Replies)
(/home/user1)-> more script.sh
#!/bin/ksh
( echo open devicename
sleep 3;
echo user;
sleep 2;
echo password;
sleep 2;
echo "/info/dump"; ---------> This needs to redirect to a file .Can be number of pages
sleep 2;
echo "exit" ) | telnet
Please use code tags next time for... (2 Replies)