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# 1  
Old 05-14-2014
Using echo, grep and wc and outputing to text file
My current line command is as follows:

Code:
echo -n "text: " ; grep "blah text" ../dir1/filename | wc -l

The output to the screen is as needed, but how do I print to a text file?
# 2  
Old 05-14-2014
Huh? Smilie

There's not much to go on here. Do you want to:-
  • display every file that matches your search
  • count all the files that match your search
  • list every file and the counts that match your search
  • something else?
Go on, give us a clue.



Robin
# 3  
Old 05-14-2014
The screen output of

Code:
text: 3102

needs to be output to a text file.
# 4  
Old 05-14-2014
Oh right then! The operator > can be added to the end of a command line to capture the output to a named file, e.g.:-
Code:
echo Hello > /tmp/my_file

If you want it to display it to the screen too, you can do this:-
Code:
echo Hello | tee /tmp/my_file

Does that help, or have I missed the point?



Robin
# 5  
Old 05-14-2014
Code:
echo -n "text: " > test.txt ; grep "blah text" ../dir1/filename | wc -l

gives me screen output of
3102

but file output of
text:

I need the entire output to go to the file.
# 6  
Old 05-14-2014
Yes, we can manage that:-
Code:
( echo -n "text: " ; grep "blah text" ../dir1/filename | wc -l ) > test.txt

Have I got it right now?

You can also trim the command a bit:-
Code:
( echo -n "text: " ; grep -c "blah text" ../dir1/filename ) > test.txt



Robin
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# 7  
Old 05-14-2014
Or redirect stdout itself so all lines below print into the log file:

Code:
exec > file.log

echo "text: "
grep "blah text" ../dir1/filename | wc -l

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