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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Getting command output to putty window title. Post 302948055 by domagaj on Thursday 25th of June 2015 07:35:14 AM
Old 06-25-2015
Getting command output to putty window title.

Hi,
Last 2 weeks I have searched many forums and i haven't found the answer for the question:
How to get all command output to Putty title?
Needed it for other programs to know when some jobs on a server is done and is it done right or wrong. Plink stdout and stdin wasn't working, i used many tweaks with wait delays and for some commands that worked for others not. XSEL and XCLIP couldn't be installed on that server.

So here is the solution:
1. Get command output in a file.
2. Echo that file to title.

on putty client and suse server it looks like this:
Code:
ls /home | grep domagaja > logutoit.txt 
echo -e "\033]0\\;$(cat logutoit.txt)\\007\\c"

Hopefully someone will be able to use this. It won't work for all server types and putty client settings, of course, but the idea should work well.
Best
Jacek


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Mod Comment Please use code tags next time for your code and data, thanks

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messageBox(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     messageBox(3)

NAME
messageBox - pop up a message window and wait for user response. SYNOPSIS
$response = $widget->messageBox(-option => value, ... ); DESCRIPTION
This method uses Tk::Dialog to quickly create several common dialog boxes. A dialog widget consists of a message, an icon and a set of buttons (see the -type option). After the message window is popped up, messageBox waits for the user to select one of the buttons and return the button text (note that it's best to check the returned value in a case insensitive manner). NOTE: unlike Tk::Dialog which creates its widget once and can be used many times, the messageBox window is created every time it's used. The following option/value pairs are supported: -default The case-sensitive symbolic name of the default button for this message window ('Ok', 'Cancel' and so on). See -type for a list of the symbolic names. If the message box has just one button it will automatically be made the default, otherwise if this option is not specified, there won't be any default button. -icon Specifies an icon to display. On X11 any of the builtin Tk bitmaps can specified. On Windows only error, info, question or warning are supported. -message Specifies the message to display. -title Specifies a string to display as the title. -type Specifies a predefined set of buttons to be displayed. The following values are possible: 'AbortRetryIgnore', 'Ok', 'OkCancel', 'RetryCancel', 'YesNo' or 'YesNoCancel'. EXAMPLE
$response = $mw->messageBox(-icon => 'question', -message => 'Hello World!', -title => 'My title', -type => 'AbortRetryIgnore', -default => 'Retry'); AUTHOR
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