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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using the watch command Post 302991491 by SkySmart on Saturday 11th of February 2017 02:28:42 PM
Old 02-11-2017
Using the watch command

so i have a very long script which i have to run. when i run this script, i want to monitor the the openssl commands it runs.

the way ive attempted to do this is:

Code:
watch -t -n 1 "(date '+TIME:%H:%M:%S' ; ps aux | egrep openssl | egrep -v grep)" 2>&1 | tee -a logfile

the above command is suppose to run the watch command continuously looking for the word "openssl" in the process table.
when it finds any process that has the word, its suppose to copy the entire line from the process table containing the "openssl" command and then log it to a file called logfile.

however, this isnt working as expected. when i view the logfile all i see is a bunch of empty lines and blank spaces and these weird characters:

Code:
;80H^[[1;13H1^[[24;80H^[[1;13H2^[[24;80H^[[1;13H3^[[24;80H^[[1;13H4^[[24;80H^[[1;13H5^[[24;80H^[[1;13H6^[[24;80H^[[1;13H7^
[[24;80H^[[1;13H8^[[24;80H^[[1;13H9^[[24;80H^[[1;12H40^[[24;80H^[[1;13H1^[[24;80H^[[1;13H2^[[24;80H^[[1;13H3^[[24;80H^[[1;13H4^[[24;80H^
[[1;13H5^[[24;80H^[[1;13H6^[[24;80H^[[1;13H7^[[24;80H^[[1;13H8^[[24;80H^[[1;13H9^[[24;80H^[[1;12H50^[[24;80H^[[1;13H1^[[24;80H^[[1;13H2^[
[24;80H^[[1;13H3^[[24;80H^[[1;13H4^[[24;80H^[[1;13H5^[[24;80H^[[?1049h^[[1;24r^[(B^[[m^[[4l^[[?7h^[[H^[[2J^[[24;80H^[[?1049h^[[1;24r^[(B^[[m^[[4l^[[?7h^[[H^[[2J^[[24;80H

how can the watch command be fixed to do what i want?
 

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