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Old 11-29-2010
Non interactive command output using script command ?
Hello,

Script command helps to save command output to file. (Redicection doesn't work in this case).
Besides interactive shell 'recording', Linux script command has "-c" option which allows to record output of some non-interactive command.
The problem is that AIX script command variant doesn't have any options to record non-interactive command output.

Any ways to work around this - make AIX script command to save non-interactive command output ?

thanks
Vilius
# 2  
Old 11-29-2010
You could download the source for the gnu script and compile it. If redirection doesn't work it might be because output is getting sent to STDERR instead of STDOUT. Have you tried to do your redirect with 2> filename?
# 3  
Old 11-29-2010
No 2> doesn't work.

---------- Post updated at 09:21 AM ---------- Previous update was at 08:46 AM ----------

This is exactly my problem:
https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...ly-script.html
# 4  
Old 11-29-2010
Have you tried running the script without redirecting the ouput to see what it is actually outputting? it seems to me that sftp may not me outputting what you want. My version of sftp doesn't have a progress bar. If you want a progress bar I would consider using scp instead.
# 5  
Old 11-29-2010
-$ sftp -b ./sftp_commands1 server1
sftp> progress
Progress meter enabled
sftp> mget *
Fetching /home/user1/file1 to file1
/home/user1/file1 100% 7 0.0KB/s 00:00
Fetching /home/user1/file2 to file2
/home/user1/file2 100% 7 0.0KB/s 00:00
Fetching /home/user1/file3 to file3
/home/user1/file3 100% 19 0.0KB/s 00:00
Fetching /home/user1/file4 to file4
/home/user1/file4 100% 7 0.0KB/s 00:00
Fetching /home/user1/file5 to file5
/home/user1/file5 100% 7 0.0KB/s 00:00
sftp> quit

$ sftp -b ./sftp_commands1 server1 >> log1
$ cat log1
sftp> progress
Progress meter enabled
sftp> mget *
Fetching /home/user1/file1 to file1
Fetching /home/user1/file2 to file2
Fetching /home/user1/file3 to file3
Fetching /home/user1/file4 to file4
Fetching /home/user1/file5 to file5
sftp> quit


As you can see progress/status lines are gone.

V
Last edited by vilius; 11-29-2010 at 04:30 AM..
# 6  
Old 11-29-2010
That is wierd. maybe the program is writing the progress directly to you tty instead of STDOUT. But if that were the case you should still see those messages...

Have you tried using tee?

Code:
command | tee -a $LOGFILE

# 7  
Old 11-29-2010
tee behaves the same way as redirect operators.

V
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