Questions tagged [output]
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grep of executable commands with variable
Have a file with thousands of lines like so :
echo " device " ; login 'command' ip > device_command" $(date +"%Y_%m_%d_%I_%M_%p")".txt
I run my script like so:
./script.sh | grep "device"
..in ...
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How to save command line screen output in Linux after running program?
I ran a program that has a good amount of command line output, and it ran on a screen in a ssh server. I referred to this post so that I can scroll through the screen and see the output, but there is ...
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Why does my touchpad stop working when I plug in my (normal, non-USB) headphones?
It's the darnedest thing. And only started happening within the last two days. Whenever I plug in my 3.5mm AKG headphones into the appropriate spot on my Acer Chromebook 15 CB3-532 running Ubuntu 18, ...
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Clean formatting of output within bash scripts
I ran across a problem formatting the output during runtime while preserving the format of the code in some scripts. The below works for me, just wanna check that it's reasonable? It seems to dirty up ...
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Next command output on the same line? Bash script
I have the following simple script:
echo "-------------------------- SOA --------------------------------"
echo " "
echo -n " ---------> "; dig soa "$1" +short | awk '{print $3}'
The output is ...
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Grep: separate output into two column and save them into txt file
In a directory, after running ls -d -- 0.*_*.txt | sort -t. -k1, I obtained output filenames such as
0.230_0.203059.txt
How can I further writing each of them into two columns like
0.230 0.203059
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Sybase query: save output to a file
I´ve created the following script:
#!/bin/bash
isql -U databasename_dba -P password -b <<EOF!
select quantity, date from name_table where numer_id="1234"
go
quit
EOF!
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Print lines between two patterns one by one
My sed or awk can print line between two patterns, but how can I make it display one by one?
Example - It should display the first part of the output, and when I press Space it should display the 2nd ...
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How can I search terminal output?
Say I type git help to learn about the merge command. I don't want to read all the output just the lines that contain merge and their surrounding lines.
I thought this would be a common question but ...
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Output fdisk bash command to multiline variable
I can't seem to figure out how I can put a fdisk command from a bash script in a multiline variable.
Here is my code
hdds="$(sudo fdisk -l | grep "Disk /dev/sd" | awk '{print$2}' | sed 's/://g')"
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Echo shell log while entering and then exit
While I type a command, this command will authenticate with a remote server and do a bunch of things. If pass, it will give me a bash shell with its environment.
My goal is to save these log which ...
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GRUB 2.02 - no output in command line mode
When I am entering GRUB bash-like console mode and entering commands ls ls -lh to show available partitions there is no output.
Following similar question @ Unix&Linux Stack, I already turned off ...
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awk save value as variable
I use the command
varioutput=$(awk '{print $j}' OFS=, data/damper.test_temp1.csv)
because I want to extract the j th value of a line of many values seperated by , . But when I want to use $...
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Find string and make it bold in output E-mail
i have below code which check status of some services on linux rhel 7 and send email (output is different service status). i want to make specific string called "up" and or "NOT up" in bold and with ...
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Formating grep output [closed]
I have website on my hard drive that I need to locate keywords within the HTML files, then output to an html file, listing each find on a new line. Currently i'm useing the line below, but the output ...
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What ps WCHAN sync_b means?
I have this ps output:
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN STIME TTY TIME CMD
0 D root 30394 30390 0 80 0 - 25731 sync_b Apr07 ? 00:12:22 du -sh /poze/output
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Maintain color from script output for later viewing
I want to save the output from a script so I can view it later. However, when I save the output to a file (script > some/file) and view it later, there's no color, even though script originally ...
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How to choose between sound outputs without unplugging hardware?
I am currently running the following:
4.15.0-46-generic GNU/Linux
Distributor ID: LinuxMint
Release: 19.1
Codename: tessa
I have my headphones plugged into their dedicated port, however, I ...
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Running command on each line of output immediately [duplicate]
I found out that when I run a command which executes a software that has continuous output lines e.g. traffic monitor like tcpdump or tshark the command keeps counting numbers on screen like 4, 8, 12 ....
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How can I know the type of each element in the output of ls -l?
I was checking what exactly each field is in the output of ls -l. The example in this post solves my question. But again I'm wondering what type of each field is. The strings are obvious. But how ...
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Show only the really extracted (non-skipped) files using tar
I'm extracting daily backup archives. I want to see only the new files since the last day. The archives contain lot of already existing files, which I don't want to overwrite, so I use the --skip-old-...
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Showkey with timestamp
How can I record keyboard actions with the timestamp, either to console, or preferably to a file?
I have showkey output like:
keycode 28 release
keycode 30 press
keycode 30 release
keycode 48 ...
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CTRL+D vs CTRL+C
Is it true to say that CTRL+D stops input execution while CTRL+C stops output displaying (as plain data, without execution)?
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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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make json from SQL query output
I have this query:
select hostname,size from tableinfo
output is like this:
hostname size
------------------------- -----------
host1 28
host2 ...
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How to print the version of a specific MediaWiki installation to terminal
I have a LAMP environment with /var/www/html/x which is a MediaWiki website. I have a few more MediaWiki websites but I'd like to print the version of the x one to terminal.
I need to do so I could ...
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df -h inaccurate output [duplicate]
when I hit the command dh -h in my shell I'm confused why I get an inaccurate answer for / which is 29G.
by inaccurate I mean the summation of avail which is 8G and Used which is 20G is 28G but the ...
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Output colored text in all major distros without using non-word color codes (like \033[0;31m)
I found these ways, for example, to output colored text in a simple way to the screen:
RED="\033[0;31m" # Red color (via ANSI escape code);
NC='\033[0m' # No color (via ANSI escape code);
echo -e "${...
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How can I output a command to a file, without getting a blank file on error?
I'm trying to run a command, write that to a file, and then I'm using that file for something else.
The gist of what I need is:
myAPICommand.exe parameters > myFile.txt
The problem is that ...
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Reduce space between numbers and paths in “dirs -v” output
I feel like the space between the numbers and the paths is too much and I believe that less space would make lines easier to follow.
Is there an easy way reduce that space?
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Shellscript `grep` execution not working as in the interactive shell
Having to deal with an environment where ack and so on is not available nor installable, this command try to limit only relevant files to find string through the C++ project :
grep pattern --color --...
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How to treat a command output as text
I need to compare a command output with a string.
This is the scenario:
pvs_var=$(pvs | grep "sdb1")
so pvs var is: /dev/sdb1 vg_name lvm2 a-- 100.00g 0
if [[ $($pvs_var | awk '{ print $2 }') = ...
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What does <F6>q mean in ls command output?
I used ls ~ on RHEL 7 but I got <F6>q as output! What does it mean?
[user@server2 ~]$ ls /home/user/
<F6>q
[user@server2 ~]$ ll
total 4
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 340 Sep 18 17:16 <F6>...
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Directly play input sound (Mint)
I recently set up a Linux Mint 18 machine, which has an electric piano plugged into it via a USB sound card.
Now, the input works: we can record sounds from the piano; and the output works as we can ...
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Understanding sudo and possible exploit
I'm doing some hands on pen testing and following some guides to get an understanding of the tools of the trade. I'm following along with the guide here and I understand everything except for the last ...
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How to input from headphone mic, output to built-in speakers
My laptop (Kubuntu 18.04) has only a single sound card. I want to take input from the Mic of the headphone I connect but get the output to the built-in speaker of the laptop.
I can toggle input (...
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htop - See/Filter all the instances of a binary
I have a binary that I will be running multiple times in parallel, each instance executed with different input from the command line.
I wanted htop to list only these processes so that I can compare ...
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Get latest output of a running command
I have a command running for a long time, which I don't want to disturb. However, I would like to keep check on the process (most of the time remotely). I am constantly monitoring the process via ...
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Bash output two results next to each other
I have an out from xmllint and egrep that I would like to print two fields next to each other.
e.g.
(xmlinput) xmllint --format | egrep reference\|sourcefile
<reference>ItemX</reference>
&...
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What prevents stdout/stderr from interleaving?
Say I run some processes:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
foo &
bar &
baz &
wait;
I run the above script like so:
foobarbaz | cat
as far as I can tell, when any of the processes write to stdout/...
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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 ...
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hide results that echo in if conditional [duplicate]
I have the next script:
host=$1
port=23
user= <user>
pass="<pass>"
cmd1='show int descrip | i TRUNK|BBONE'
#cmd2=exit
( echo open ${host}
sleep 1
echo ${user}
sleep 1
echo ${pass}
sleep ...
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python script output won't be directed to file
I have a python script. It has a SimpleLogger with sys.stdout as output_stream.
logger = SimpleLogger(level=LogLevel.DEBUG)
When I run it in console, I get the logs properly, but whenever I ...
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Bash: How to store a specific line of CLI output into a file?
Let's assume I receive the following output after executing a bash script in CLI (so this text will be displayed in terminal):
POST https://mycompany.com/
COOKIE='BLABLABLABLABLA'
HOST='ANYIPADDRESS'
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How to see from which file descriptor output is coming?
How to see from which file descriptor output is coming?
$ echo hello
hello
$ echo hello 1>&2
hello
all are going to /dev/pts/0
but there are 3 file descriptors 0,1,2
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Outputting context (-C) for grep produces massive files
Task:
I'm using grep to search some text files, piping the results from one grep (excluding some lines) to another (matching some lines) + displaying some context using the -C parameter as shown ...
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Changing audio output from terminal
I have a Xonar DGX card, and I can change the audio output with alsamixer by going to the Analog Output option and switching between Stereo Headphones and Stereo Headphones FP. How can I do the same ...
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How can I save a scrollable terminal window (RoxTerm) into a png image?
I would like to save a Ruby program coloured terminal output into a png file, output doesn't fit into the screen height, so it is scrollable. Is it possible to save the whole or part of the scrollable ...
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Write string to a file without a shell [closed]
Suppose I have an environment where there isn't a shell running, so I can't use redirection, pipes, here-documents or other shell-isms, but I can launch a command (through execvp or some similar way). ...
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ffmpeg truncates paths on output when there are dots involved when run on bash
If I have a path with dots in the path, for instance:
/home/user/Documents/hello/test.testing_23-24.123/test.testing_23-24.124
ffmpeg can locate the file if you pass the file's path as an argument ...
