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Old 12-13-2003, 12:26 PM   #1
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Bash: show on terminal and save to file


Hi everyone,

As you can see I am looking for a command / method to save the output to a file and getting the changes on the screen, real-time.

I have tried several cats and pipes, I can't find a solution.

Anyone?

Geert.
 
Old 12-13-2003, 12:44 PM   #2
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Tee.
 
Old 12-13-2003, 12:53 PM   #3
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save what output to a file?
tail <file> -f ( will print the output of <file> in realtime to standard output )

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Old 12-13-2003, 01:02 PM   #4
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You can have some fun with grep!

For example.....
ifconfig | grep "" > ip.txt will save the entire output of ifconfig

ifconfig | grep "" | cut -d: -f2 | cut -dB -f1 > ip.txt This strips it down a bit.

ifconfig eth0 | grep --max-count=1 'inet' | cut -d: -f2 | cut -dB -f1 > ip.txt This really " cuts " things down and only saves the ip address of eth0


Edit: To more properly anwer the question of show on terminal and save to file you can use the command twice and separated by the && operator.

For example..
dmesg && dmesg |grep "" > test.txt This will output to the screen and save to the file also.

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Old 12-13-2003, 01:59 PM   #5
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BTW To save output from a console command to a file. But the redirected text will not be displayed on the monitor at the same time.

> file.txt (creates a new file or overwrites existing file)
>> file.txt (appends to existing file or creates if it doesn't exist)
 
Old 12-13-2003, 04:49 PM   #6
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thanx for the tee command.

very helpful. really thank you.

Geert.
 
  


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