how to save output of 'fuser' to a file

p_raju · 05-27-2008, 08:10 AM

Hi,

I am trying to create a shell script for checking whether a file is being used by any process. If file is not being used by any process and I want to compress or gzip that file. I want to do this for compressing mount space.
The problem I am facing is, when I do

find . -name "*req" -size +10000 -exec fuser {} \; >> spoolfile.txt

The output of fuser is not saving the spoolfile. Instead its displaying on Standard Output

Can anybody help on this.

Thanks,
Raj

druuna · 05-27-2008, 08:41 AM

Hi,

The redirection part (>> spoolfile.txt) is placed wrong. It should be:

find . -name "*req" -size +10000 -exec fuser {} >> spoolfile.txt \;

The redirection is part of the fuser statement, not find.

Hope this helps.

p_raju · 05-27-2008, 10:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by druuna

Hi,

The redirection part (>> spoolfile.txt) is placed wrong. It should be:

find . -name "*req" -size +10000 -exec fuser {} >> spoolfile.txt \;

The redirection is part of the fuser statement, not find.

Hope this helps.

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Hi druuna,

Thanks for your reply.
but still the same issue. The output is not saved in the spool file. I used command like given below.

find . -name "*req" -size +10000 -exec fuser {} >> spoolfile.txt \;

Pls help.

Thanks,
Raju. Payannavar

jlliagre · 05-28-2008, 02:55 AM

Try that:

Code:

find . -name "*req" -size +10000 -exec fuser {} + >> spoolfile.txt 2>&1

colucix · 05-28-2008, 03:55 AM

I didn't aware you double posted! Look at your duplicate thread for the answer (before it's closed) and consider jlliagre suggestion.

p_raju · 05-31-2008, 04:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jlliagre

Try that:

Code:

find . -name "*req" -size +10000 -exec fuser {} + >> spoolfile.txt 2>&1

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Thanks a Million. It working as I expected.

Regards,
Raju Payannavar