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Hello,
I want know is it possible to write an output to a file using shell scripting
i have a value which is refreshing every minute i want to write or save that value in the hard disk..is it possible to do that using shell scripting??
will write the string "Stuff" to the file called "file" (obviously you can replace the "echo "Stuff"" with whatever is generating output). If this isn't what you want to do, please explain in more detail.
No my question was, suppose i want to list the CPU utilization or Memory usage of all the active process and i want it to write the values to a file and save it in a hard disk, that file should refresh as the % CPU utilization or memory usage changes.
If you want a current reading, you can just use ps and don't need a file. If you want to track cpu usage, you can use top or vmstat and redirect the output to the file or have the output displayed in the console and use the "tee" command to also write the output to a file (use the -n(vmstat)/-b(top) option). A simple sed command could be used so that the output is comma separated values that you can enter into Open Office Calc.
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