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Old 07-01-2010, 08:13 AM   #1
brubizu
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Weird thing in redirecting stdout and stderr


Hi... I'm trying to redirect the progress percentage of the mkisofs command to a zenity window... the thing is, mkisofs prints the xx% to the stderr... so what I'm trying to do is:

Code:
mkisofs options ../filename.iso . 2>&1 | grep done
and that "works"... I mean, it does print the correct lines on the terminal... however if a try to write to a file, or pipe it to another command, awk for example:

Code:
mkisofs options ../filename.iso . 2>&1 | grep done | awk '{print $1}'
it doesn't print anything...

Code:
mkisofs options ../filename.iso . 2>&1 | grep done > foo
this will make foo an empty file...

what am I doing wrong?
 
Old 07-01-2010, 09:18 AM   #2
brubizu
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it is working, but the numbers are printed almos all at once at the end of iso building.
 
Old 07-01-2010, 11:09 AM   #3
Wim Sturkenboom
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Might be line buffering by grep. Try to use grep --line-buffered

I had a similar issue and matir suggested the above.
 
  


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