Shell Programming and Scripting

I don't have the slightest idea about how your ctftestdump works and what input it needs. Could an end, exit, or similar command be entered into querytas.txt?

Try replacing testit_tas.sh with:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
IAm=${0##*/}
Tmpfile=/tmp/$IAm.$$

trap 'rm -f "$Tmpfile"' EXIT

./ctftestdump 10.240.56.1 8100 querytas.txt > "$Tmpfile" &
pid=$!
sleep 5
kill $pid
grep -F '5001=-46<TX>' "$Tmpfile"

In addition to normal output from the grep, this might also give you a line similar to the following:

Code:

testit_tas.sh: line 11: 20884 Terminated: 15          ./ctftestdump 10.240.56.1 8100 querytas.txt > "$Tmpfile"

which is bash's way of telling you that cftestdump was killed. If you find this line of output objectionable, you can get rid of it by redirecting stderr when you invoke testit_tas.sh:

Code:

./testit_tas.sh 2>/dev/null

but doing this will also hide any other diagnostic messages your script might provide. Do not do this until you know that the script is doing what you want it to do.

Hi Don,

This is just perfect. Now i just need to add the mail configuration to the script.

Thanks,
Sambit

Hi Sambit,
In post #7 you said that you could take care of the e-mail using cron as suggested by RudiC in post #6. What else needs to be done?

I still find it difficult to believe that ctftestdump doesn't have a way to exit normally...