Questions tagged [output]
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diff: what does this output indicate?
I am using the following command to log the difference between two files on my disk to a log:
diff --color=always -sy --suppress-common-lines --suppress-blank-empty file1.c file2.c >> diff_log....
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Exec Not Updating Values from Certain Bash Functions and Variables When Prepending Script Output
I am logging messages in Bash where I add some useful information to the log message to help provide context. However, in the final output most of my variables and functions appear to only use their ...
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Copy stdout and stderr to a log file, show on console only stderr output and log stderr messages into another file
I have a situation I need the output redirection in a bash script in the following way:
On the console only errout messages should be shown
Errout messages should be also logged into one specific ...
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How capture MySQL result metadata in a file when run from shell script
I am running a MySQL script file from a shell script in Linux (CentOS 7). While I can capture the result in a file, I am not able to capture result metadata.
Example:
My test.sql file looks like this:
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How do I make a secondary readable text file next to the rawlog file, like it would appear when you type in “savelog” manually in terminal?
The question comes from this question here: Save all the terminal output to a file, specifically this post: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/323920/478293 but I can't post a comment on there asking ...
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What are LPF and Socket/fallback in the output of dhclient -v?
Below is some sample output of that command:
$ sudo dhclient -v
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.4.1
Copyright 2004-2018 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please ...
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How to check if command had any output (zsh)
I want to print a new line after a command if it had any output (I hope that this will make it more readable once my terminal starts scrolling).
I found this:
precmd() {
precmd() {
print &...
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Read variable inputs and replace the template file with variable values
In a linux shell scripts, I am reading input for some variable values. Based on these Variable values, I need to change template file with the input.
For example.
I have a file hello.txt with the ...
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Why is my message not displayed?
I have a following script:
#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
IFS=$'\n\t'
CIRCLE_USERNAME="${1:-}"
CIRCLE_BUILD_URL="${2:-}"
CIRCLE_JOB="${3:-}"
CIRCLE_PROJECT_USERNAME=&...
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How to have find feature `-printf` print out into stderr
Is it possible somehow find feature -printf print out at the moment it's used into stderr ?
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Redirect outputs to different columns of the same file
I have a series 5 of commands working on several files located in several sudirectories. Suppose I want to redirect the output of every command as a new column in the same file, how can I do that. ...
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How to make sftp output a working sftp prompt after the connection from CLI arguments is created?
I get a program that stays in input state, the user can type characters but they are useless.
The following are the command and the output. After this, the terminal prints the keys pressed.
~ sftp -...
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Submitting Several R Jobs at Once to HPC
I currently have the below R script
by <- 0.1
s1 <- seq(4, 5, by = by)
for (i in s1) {
system(sprintf("sbatch --export=ALL,START=%.2f,END=%.2f my_R_file.sh", i, i + by))
}
which ...
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How to expand variables inside read without envsubst, arguments or heredocuments (and without any non shell-builtins)? [duplicate]
Perhaps I have misunderstood Stéphane Chazelas's answer here so I ask another question.
In Bash desire to expand variables inside read without envsubst, arguments or heredocuments (and without any ...
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Only one HDMI port recognized on USB-C dock
I've gotten my hands on a JCD543 and only the HDMI/DP combination port is detected on my carbon x1 5th gen running linux while the secondary HDMI and VGA port are not.
$ dmesg -w
[337962.676809] pci ...
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Unable to get the nth column data due to changing output of uptime command
Below is the output of uptime from Solaris where I am extracting the third last column:
uptime
8:30pm up 23 day(s), 17:46, 5 users, load average: **2.79**, 1.79, 1.53
I always need to get the ...
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Formatting command output that is a long single line
I am working on vxlan tunneling between Linux - commercial routers. I need to debug some interface settings.
The command sudo ip -d link show DEV gives me a great output but the output format is like ...
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Get the output of a remote ssh to local
I'm able to get the output of a failing lp command from a remotehost to my local script like below:
until ssh -q root@remotehost 'lp -d Brother_HL_L2350DW_series /root/moht/Printed/`basename "$...
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How to grab output of a remote ssh command with until-loop in a variable
Below is my until loop that fires a printer command to a remote host using ssh
until ssh root@45.76.165.127 'lp -d Brother_HL_L2350DW_series /root/moht/Printed/`basename "$FILE"`'
do
echo &...
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How do I print slurm variables to standard slurm output?
I want to print the following variables to the standard output file slurm-XXXXX.out produced by Slurm. Right now, I am generating a separate .info file for every job.
echo "SLURM Job ID : $...
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replace MTA with something not email related
What I try to achieve is to send all my server logs, errors, crontab outputs etc. with something like telegram or signal. I am locking for a MTA with can handle a different backend and is still ...
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Trying to move words from dictionary using grep command to append .txt file [closed]
Doing a project going for extra credit by making script to do work for me instead of me typing in commands over and over.
I need to move several words from a file. Not just the words, but words ...
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Script output formatting
I am writing a diagnostics script currently using echo commands like
echo -e "Hostname:\t\t"`hostname`
which prints out Hostname: {hostname}
Would I be better served accomplishing this task ...
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write output files for jobs submitting via Torque qsub
I am working on a HPC where I have to submit jobs via TORQUE. I was able to create output file for the following but unable to do the same when going through job queue.
I was able to write hello.txt ...
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Why is there output of ping after it has been terminated?
When a process breaks, as I know no output will be return anymore. But always after breaking ping command we have the statistics of the execution, and as I know it's part of the output.
amirreza@time:~...
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Mapping missing audio devices to Playback hardware devices?
I am trying to correlate or map my integrated Display-port and HDMI ports to devices listed in the output from aplay in a attempt to enable the audio outputs on them simultaneously. However, I am only ...
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How to output sound on 3.5 mm stereo jack and via UPnP-stream simultaneously?
Imagine a standard desktop computer. Connected to this computer is a pair of loudspeakers via common 3.5 mm stereo jack (AUX). Everything works fine so far.
Now we have a further speaker in another ...
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Print a message before the Bash pauses its output
I'm currently doing some Bash scripting and have built a tool that returns log information. However, the script sometimes returns a lot of lines (depending on what is going on on the network) and Ctrl+...
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Let a Windows program (in Wine) capture stdout of a Linux program that it runs
I have a Windows program running under Wine. That Windows program lets me set up "tools" to run external programs and then it will capture their standard output/error and show it to me ...
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how can i pull data based on certain flags for rows of data and create a new file with them
I'm working with Upper Air Balloon data with a format of ....
**254 12 1 JAN 2002
1 94703 72501 40.87N 72.87W 20 1116**
2 100 100 250 40 32767 3
**3 ...
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rsync with the “--progress” option prints extra garbage information
when using rsync with the --progress option, in addition to printing progress, it also prints strange codes (xfr#1, to-chk=2/4), ie:
rsync -a --progress --delete src dst
1,206 100% 0.00kB/s ...
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Generate output only if other command already generated output
In this bash script, I update all apps inside all my Nextcloud docker instances:
#!/bin/bash
ALL_NC="next1.mycloud.com next2.mycloud.com next3.mycloud.com"
for i in $ALL_NC; do
DOCKERIMAGE=...
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Redirect UNIX output to append file
So I'm writing a Python script that passes different parameters to a Unix command and I need all of the command outputs to be saved to the same file.
However the only way I know is to re-write the ...
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How to save terminal output to file?
There are, of course, many ways to save terminal output to a file. However, all the ones I know of require you execute them before the commands who's output you want to save. Is there a command for ...
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Interpret disk errors output from ras-mc-ctl --summary
When I run ras-mc-ctl --summary I get the following output:
No Memory errors.
No PCIe AER errors.
No Extlog errors.
No devlink errors.
Disk errors summary:
0:0 has 15356 errors
0:2064 has ...
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Output of lsblk includes both pipes and back ticks
sda
|-sda1 ntfs Recovery F49E60439E5FFD0C
|-sda2 vfat ...
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Possible in bash to conditionally redirect output to either stdout or /dev/null?
Use-case:
I am writing a script that will accept --simulate which acts as a dry run and only prints the command rather than running it. When running normally (i.e. not with --simulate), the command ...
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Save output of command in array
I am executing this command
ar=($( ssh -i id_rsa -T -y root@1.1.1.1 sh -c "id;whoami;ps aux"))
I need to save the output of each command executed into the array and call the array, but i ...
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save output on multiple files
I'm trying to send disk space update to multiple files so that one file will have current update which will get overwritten every hours and another file can have all the updates where it appends the ...
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How to remove unneccessary spaces from table output in shell while still keeping columns aligned?
Below command outputs a table of space delimited text, is there a tool to remove the unnecessary spacing here while still keeping the columns aligned?
$ sudo ss -ltpn
State Recv-Q Send-Q ...
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ls command is not resulting file timestamp instead it is just displaying only year [duplicate]
While I am running ls command on IBM AIX machine, sometimes it is resulting in only year part of the file timestamp.
For example :
ls -lrt test.txt 0 Apr 28 2020 test.txt
but sometimes the ...
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Substitute or merge output of two commands in one, using one line command
How can I merge the output of two commands in one, using one command?
command1 output:
ID NAME1 COLUMN2
xxx-1 aaa bbb
xxx-2 ccc ddd
xxx-3 eee fff
xxx-4 nnn ...
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How to redirect output files of a program?
I have the following distribution of files:
samuel@samuel-TM1607:~/Documents/Fisica/19-20/Radiactividad/Prácticas/Practicas-onteCarlo0/GAMMA/prueba$ ls ../
detector-1.in GAMMA-Resultados penmain-...
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Not override a file when used as stdout of a c program
I have used gcc and make to compile a c file.
The name of the run file is sequence. I have two goals:
Have an input file (i.ein1) as stdin and run the program. when the program finishes using in1 and ...
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Append text to flagged output of awk
I have a function that takes a filename. It then runs a command and filters the output (exclusive) between two patterns, then it outputs comma separated values with the filename output of the command. ...
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Remove extra blank lines from CMD adb shell, when redirected to file
I am outputting results from an android shell command to a file, with MS-windows cmd via ADB.exe.
It outputs the correct results, but I am getting an extra line between each result. It looks ...
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Running Python script using shell script redirecting python output
I am running my python script using a shell script run.sh to restart it if crashes :
#!/bin/sh
COMMAND='nohup python3 -u test.py run >> py.log &'
LOGFILE=restart.txt
writelog() {
now=`...
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Disk usage command problem
I used
du -h hello
where hello is a file or directory name. It printed
4.0k hello
in output. I don't need the output to contain the .0k part. How can I remove that so that the output is just 4 ...
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How to see previous output in terminal window?
I was running a lengthy scientific simulation (which took almost a week to run) on my Linux workstation with the command which looked like this:
time ./simulation
So besides getting the output files ...
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poll for the right output of a command
completely new to bash so any assistance is much appreciated. I'm looking for a script to do the following, its a pretty simple script but I cant seem to get it:
I want to run a command, this command ...
