Questions tagged [io-redirection]
I/O redirection is used in shell scripting. This feature enables to take the output of a command and redirect it as an input for another command. Or command can take the input from a file instead of the keyboard. The whole process helps connect commands in various ways.
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How to use variables inside back-quotes
I have a bash script that accepts a parameter "$input" and (among other things) directs it into a program and collects the output.
Currently my line is:
OUTPUT=`./main.exe < $input`
But I get ...
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Remote overwrite crontab file with sudo
I'm trying to build a script that automatically takes a file on the remote server and replace with crontab file, but I get permission denied.
My idea is to create a shell function for it:
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Redirecting input bash
I have a program, that runs on only one Raspberry Pi, but could be run from multiple other computers (through SSH). When I run my program on the Pi, it runs as expected. To be able to run from crontab ...
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What's going on with this dash '-' thing?
I was trying to export the Python environment requirements and this is what I intended to do:
conda list -e > requirements.txt
However I mistakenly typed this instead:
conda list -e -> ...
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How could I know inside a script if stdout has been redirected for it?
I have a script in ksh; depending whether there is a redirection from the command line, I redirect the output via a exec 1>file. How can I test from inside the script itself if the command calling ...
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Nohup: Redirect stderr to file and dismiss stdout
Per default, nohup writes stdout to nohup.out and dismisses stderr. I would like to have it the other way around:
write stderr to a file and dismiss stdout.
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redirect created files in a directory from command line
I was wondering if there is any way to redirect created files from a .sh script to a specific directory without modifying the script itself but straight from command line.
Let's say:
I've a script ...
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Redirect script output both to console and to log
Take a look on the following
# more /tmp/myscript
#!/bin/bash
echo I AM
echo BIG GUY
echo AND ALSO SMART
# bash /tmp/myscript | tee -a >/tmp/log
why we not get the output from echo in the ...
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Why does `… | sed 's/^/stdout: /'` print on empty stdin when `… > >(sed 's/^/stdout: /')` doesn't?
I'm trying to understand what causes the difference in these 2 constructs that I thought were functionally equivalent:
$ ( echo foo >&2 ) 2> >(sed 's/^/stderr: /') | sed 's/^/stdout: /' ...
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Spaces after io redirection operator? [duplicate]
I've noticed that when writing a shell script, there's a lot of inconsistency in whether people put a space after the I/O redirection operators. For example:
foo >bar.txt
Will work, but so will ...
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Oneliner for outputting to file only if string is matched (bash)?
I am making a script where I curl a URL and output to a file like this:
curl http://example.com/$1 > $1
Is there any way to make it dismiss anything that doesn't include, say <head>? I ...
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How does this script ensure that only one instance of itself is running?
On 19 Aug 2013, Randal L. Schwartz posted this shell script, which was intended to ensure, on Linux, "that only one instance of [the] script is running, without race conditions or having to clean up ...
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Run parallel command and redirect the output to files with specific name
I can't undestand well how the parallel command works.
I need to run this simple command: (100 times)
curl https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1
curl https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/...
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Portable way to invoke tar with a list of files from stdin
I want to create a .tgz from the content of a directory. I also want to strip the leading "./" from the tar'ed content.
I had done this as follows:
cd /path/to/files/ && find . -type f | cut -...
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Ambigious redirect error on different volumes with mysql
i want to import a database with mysql (running with MAMP):
#! /bin/bash
# variables
currdir=$PWD
dbname=TEST
dbuser=root
dbpass=root
dbpath="/applications/MAMP/Library/bin"
exname=database
if [ "$1"...
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How can I remove a newline from redirected output
Can I remove a newline if I redirect output like this?
echo "a" >> file
I have something similar in my script which contains a for loop that redirects every character (except numbers) to a ...
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How can you write to a file from the command line without using shell output redirection? [duplicate]
I'm trying to:
sudo echo "$USER: my message" > /dev/kmsg
to write a message to the dmesg log. This causes a 'permission denied' error, because it is redirecting the output of 'sudo' (while no ...
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What's the purpose of 1> in exec 1> >(logger -s -t tagname) 2>&1?
I just stumbled over
exec 1> >(logger -s -t $(basename $0)) 2>&1
which is used to redirect the output of the current script to the system logger (in case you've never seen this, but are ...
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Redirect output to standard out instead of file
I am writing a java wrapper for convert (which is part of image magick). What I want to do is call a command like convert -thumbnail 1024 test.JPG >(cat) to make it print the thumbnails byte stream ...
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Strange behaviour redirecting man pages
I wanted to redirect mc's man page to a text file using man mc > mc, but I accidentally executed man mc > mc grep. What resulted was a text file named mc containing two concatenated mc man pages....
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Bash output redirection to new file each time command is run
I have a Bash one-liner that redirects the output of a command to a new, fresh file each time the command is run. Logging the output of each time the command is run is important (I'm using ls here as ...
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How do I avoid this unexpected behaviour when redirecting output from echo?
I wanted to add to my hosts file easily using a one line command, but I get an unexpected result.
$ sudo sh -c 'echo -e "10.0.10.0\tserver.bananas.com\tserver" >> /etc/hosts'
$ cat /etc/hosts
-...
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-c and -b options not working in mailx in ubuntu
I was trying to send a mail from the shell script using the command
mailx -s "TEST MAIL" -c "user_name ..." user<message.txt
but it generates an error as unrecognized option -c ,the same happens ...
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Redirecting stdout from two programs
I'm running a memory check tool (prog1) on a C++ code (prog2), both of which give me a huge and detailed output. In order to chase down some bugs I need to save this output to a file.
I tried ...
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Cannot pass argument through /proc/<pid>/fd/0
I have written a basic C++ program as such:
#include <sstream>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <cstdio>
#include <iostream>
int main(void)
{
int foo;
std::cin >> foo;
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Piping output of command to sed
How would i pipe results of a command to sed without using '>>' so it appends that output to file?
What i want is something like this
command | sed -i "${command output}" file
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Is it possible to get the output of only sudo command?
I want to write the output of only sudo command to some file i.e. the line which I get on terminal after writing sudo i.e.
[sudo] password for user:
If I use sudo ls > file or sudo ls 2> file ...
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Does output redirection to a block device overwrite bytes or whole blocks?
A comment on another question made me wonder:
Assuming I redirect the output from a command to a block device, and the length of that output is less than the block size of the block device:
% ...
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How do I diff the output of these two commands? [duplicate]
I have an alias which I use to strip out comments that are piped to it:
alias decomment='egrep -v "(^#.*|^$)"'
I'm currently having some difficulty with a squid proxy setup, so I want to compare ...
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A command wants file paths. How can I give it stdin for the “infile” and stdout for the “outfile”?
Consider a command like foo -in /path/to/infile -out /path/to/outfile, that you'd like to pass strings to rather than using temp files. It may be called a lot causing much disk access, or is related ...
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What is the end of here string?
It seemed to me that the end of a here string is newline. I realize I am wrong:
$ cat <<< hello world
cat: world: No such file or directory
What can signify the end of a here string?
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What is happening in these MULTIOS redirections?
When I run 1>&2 echo hi |& grep hi, I get a non-colored hi followed by a red hi on a new line. This is the same output as 1>&2 echo hi | grep hi. Why aren’t both of the “hi”s red in ...
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How does sponge (from moreutils) work?
sponge can “soak up” stdin and write it atomically to a file, enabling one to do cat f|sponge a. I want to know how exactly it accomplishes this. How does it know when the input is finished?
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Why are redirections not working following assignment?
./NulFile contains NUL. When command expansion removes NUL from it, it outputs warnings. Is there some way to suppress the warnings?
Why are redirections not working?
$ filecontent="$(cat ./NulFile)"...
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What are the differences between here document and here string in their purposes? [closed]
In bash, it seems to me both here document and here string can be used for providing strings as stdin inputs. here document may provide an extra features to specify delimiter, which I am not sure if ...
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Bash: turn stderr back on after suppressing
I've made this script which automates installing/uninstalling git. In my function for testing if git is installed, I use the git --version command and test the return code.
I dislike the stderr ...
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Redirect to file, including current prompt line
How to include the redirected command itself to the output file redirection? For example
echo "hello!">output.txt
I want the content of output file like this:
echo "hello!">output.txt
hello!
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Why sed -i doesn't work with fd
I have this file and fd: exec 88<>abc
Why
$ sed -i "s/cd/II/g" /proc/$$/fd/88
sed: couldn't open temporary file /proc/26194/fd/sedS1D1FT: No such file or directory
but this work:
$ cat /...
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Script execution to continue even if redirection to a file fails [closed]
Its a typical scenario that, we redirect script outputs to a file.
Either because of a permissions issue or whatsoever reason, output file cant be created. (Typically, these are log files ...
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How pipe/redirect influences the execution of the script which output is to be piped/redirected? [duplicate]
I stumbled on the example of something I wasn't aware to be possible, that the mere fact of putting | or > after the script, can influence of how it will run. Details of how I realized it can be ...
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How to redirect output to file to STDOUT?
Similar problem as here
How to redirect output from file to stdout?
However, the solution given there is not universal.
My problem: I have a command that produces output to STDOUT. At the same time, ...
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What does this command do (strange assignments and redirections) [closed]
I would like to get more details on what the below command is doing:
PASSING=0 FAILED=0 > log_${ENV} print "Test Started at `date`\n"
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What does this command mean? (IO redirection question) [closed]
I am trying to figure out what this command is doing:
rm OUTPUT/* >> log_${ENV} 2>&1
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How to `paste` stdin next to stderr?
Usually paste prints two named (or equivalent) files in adjacent columns like this:
paste <(printf '%s\n' a b) <(seq 2)
Output:
a 1
b 2
But when the two files are /dev/stdin and /dev/...
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sysctl command returning info not asked about
I want to grep a particular kernel setting as follows
$ sudo sysctl -a --ignore | grep -i max_map_count 2>/dev/null
sysctl: reading key "net.ipv6.conf.all.stable_secret"
sysctl: reading key "net....
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Logging output of scripts called inside another script
Inside bashscript, I am using exec and tee to redirect logs to stdout and a log file in the same time - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange.
exec &> >(tee -a "${LogFile}")
I am sourcing ...
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Using exec 1>&2 in a POSIX shell script function. Will it interfere with other io-redirects?
I am in process of writing a POSIX shell script.
I have one function, which redirects (almost) all output to standard error stream like that:
# print something to stderr
printf "..." $var 1>&...
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Read / write to the same file descriptor with shell redirection
I'm trying to understand file descriptors in the context of shell redirection.
Why can't I have cat read from FD 3, which is being written to by ls's STDOUT?
{ err=$(exec 2>&1 >&3; ls -...
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How does redirection work between arguments
Given a command like this:
command <inputfile> <outputfile>
And then called like this:
command FileA > FileC FileB
It takes A and B as input and outputs to C, but how can it parse ...
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Why output is on the prompt line?
$ echo 'hello world' > >(wc)
$ 1 2 12
█
Why output is on the prompt line and not in the separate line below?
Also why expects input at the end?
Since, the command below works fine ...
