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Old 05-05-2010
Redirect Standard output and standard error into spreadsheet

Hey, I'm completely new at this and I was wondering if there is a way that I would be able to redirect the log files in a directories standard output and standard error into and excel spreadsheet in anyway?

Please remember don't use too advanced of terminology as I just started using shell scripts yesterday for the first time.

Thank you!

you're fellow shell noob!
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Old 05-05-2010
It's a lot easier to make a CSV file than a proper spreadsheet, and Excel can understand them just fine. A CSV file is just a text file of the form:

Code:
column1,column2,column3,column4
row1data1,row1data2,row1data3,row1data4
row2data1,row2data2,row2data3,row2data4
...

As for how to do it, that depends entirely on what you're trying to turn into what.
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Old 05-06-2010
Well within a directory we have a bunch of log files of data. I would like to store by date and significancy? How do i even start the shell command to access the log files and place them in a csv file?



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Originally Posted by Corona688
It's a lot easier to make a CSV file than a proper spreadsheet, and Excel can understand them just fine. A CSV file is just a text file of the form:

Code:
column1,column2,column3,column4
row1data1,row1data2,row1data3,row1data4
row2data1,row2data2,row2data3,row2data4
...

As for how to do it, that depends entirely on what you're trying to turn into what.
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Old 05-06-2010
can you post the sample date and the expected csv file format??
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Old 05-06-2010
when listing them by ls -l i get something along these... expect more this is just a sample


drwxr-xr-x 2 kram kram 4096 2010-03-22 16:08 P2_XXXX76_PXXXXX4_G
drwxr-xr-x 2 kram kram 4096 2010-03-22 16:51 P2_OK7976_PK96285_G
drwxr-xr-x 3 kram kram 4096 2010-03-17 12:03 P2_OK9988_PKXXXX7_
drwxr-xr-x 3 kram kram 4096 2010-03-17 11:50 P2_OK9988_XX1XXX7_


Now with all these values i'd like to creat a spreadsheet shows wat data and the time and in what directory as we could see the date and time as well as the directory there
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Old 05-06-2010
can you please provide a simple o/p format.. i mean how it should look
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Old 05-06-2010
We really need to know what exactly you're doing here. There's not a turn_generic_logfile_into_excel_spreadsheet.exe that'll psychically know how to break your logfiles into spreadsheet cells then feed it into excel. We're trying to help you write a shell script based on what you do know about your data. Depending on what it is, it could be very easy or quite complex.
 
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