Questions tagged [output]
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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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All output devices disappear Debian
A little while ago I installed pulseaudio so that I could connect bluetooth to my laptop. After that volume control keys stopped working, I had to use slider to control audio. I was displeased and ...
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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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libgpiod get the state of an output?
gpioset works but gpioget converts the line to an input instead of an output.
What's the point of removing sysfs if apps have to re-make it for state tracking.
Anyone know how to read the state of an ...
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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/PrƔcticas/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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Simultaneous audio output for bluetooth device and audio jack using blue alsa
I would like to have a simultaneous audio output to a connected bluetooth speaker and the normal audio jack at the same time.
The audio output via the bluetooth works already, but I can't get it ...
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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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How do I interpret `flatpak install` output?
I'm simply trying to install Spotify with flatpak install spotify. Here's the output:
Looking for matchesā¦
Found similar ref(s) for āspotifyā in remote āflathubā (system).
Use this remote? [Y/n]: y
...
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expect redirect incomplete output in rhel 7.5
Can any one help me out with redirecting shell out.
[root@localhost automation]# vi cs300.sh
#!/usr/bin/expect -f
set timeout -1
spawn ssh Monitor@172.30.19.96
expect "Password"
send "Password\r"
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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 ...
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why executing ls > empty.txt shows me empty.txt inside empty.txt in an empty folder?
why in an empty folder executing ls > empty.txt shows me empty.txt inside empty.txt ?
it is not poetry, it is true and I do not know why.
For me, they way to think ls > empty.txt is the ...
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Terminate process upon specific output
How can I terminate a process upon specific output from that process? For example, running a Java program with java -jar xyz.jar, I want to terminate the process once the line "Started server on port ...
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How to display only extracted files with tar, not the ones which are not extracted /not overwritten?
I'm extracting a tar archive with tar -xf /tmp/update.tar -C / -v --keep-newer-files.
The -v Option is to display all files processed, the --keep-newer-files Option is self explaining.
Due to all ...
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Easiest way to get `+` indented `tree` output
I need to replace indentation in tree output with + signs so that instead of this:
$ tree --noreport dir
dir
āāā dir1
ā āāā file1
ā āāā file2
āāā dir2
āāā file1
āāā file2
it'd print this:...
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grep multi text file input and create diferent output each file
i have script that filter several text file using grep and awk in loop, my issue is when create output to each file after filtered,
this my script:
grep_multi.sh
path=$(find /home/folder/file/...
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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 $3}'
The output is ...
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Grep: separate output into two column and save them into txt file
In a directory, after running ls -d -- 0.*_*.txt | sort -t. -k1, I obtained output filenames such as
0.230_0.203059.txt
How can I further writing each of them into two columns like
0.230 0.203059
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Sybase query: save output to a file
IĀ“ve created the following script:
#!/bin/bash
isql -U databasename_dba -P password -b <<EOF!
select quantity, date from name_table where numer_id="1234"
go
quit
EOF!
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Print lines between two patterns, pausing until keypress after each chunk
My sed or awk can print line between two patterns, but how can I make it display one by one?
Example - It should display the first part of the output, and when I press Space it should display the 2nd ...
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How can I search terminal output?
Say I type git help to learn about the merge command. I don't want to read all the output just the lines that contain merge and their surrounding lines.
I thought this would be a common question but ...
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Output fdisk bash command to multiline variable
I can't seem to figure out how I can put a fdisk command from a bash script in a multiline variable.
Here is my code
hdds="$(sudo fdisk -l | grep "Disk /dev/sd" | awk '{print$2}' | sed 's/://g')"
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