General :: Saving The Output Of "ls" Command In Color?
Nov 25, 2010
When I save the output of "ls" command to a "txt" or "rtf" file, the color information is lost. Is there any way to retain the color code of different files/directories obtained by the command "ls --color" while saving?
Is there a way to color particular words printed on console based on user preference? For example I need to color text 'error' when a particular program is compiled.
I'm timing how long it takes to run a command foo. I'm looking to append the results from the time command to a file, and discard the results from the foo command. I tried the following, but it didn't do what I want:
$ time ./foo > /dev/null >> output_from_time_command.txt
I am using openSUSE 10.3.When I install software from tarball then to record time required I send output of date to beg.txt(when installation begins) and end.txt (when installation finishes).How can I append output of date to a file so I don't need two files?
I am using system() command to save command output in txt file and i am storing in one character variable.
For example Code: system("ls>output.txt"); but what should i do when i have to save another one command output in the same txt file continuously, for example
Code:
The output of these 2 commands should come in one txt file continously it should get over write.
I want to run gsettings list-schemas (which return a list of about 100 names separated by spaces)and somehow direct each name one at a time as the input to this command:gsettings list-recursivelyI've tried it with awk, and standard | piping and also as a string variable strvar=$(gsettings list-schemas) and using the $strvar as the input butam missing something in between I'm sure like for - while or proper syntax of awk etc
I want to use the output of a previous command as a parameter to another command. For example: to know where "nice" is stored i typed: which nice output: /usr/bin/nice now the second command i typed is: ls -l /usr/bin/nice Is there a way to have a single command like: ls -l which nice ?
When in the interactive envirment, my Input and Output are all mess-up. So i want to color the Input and Output with two different colors.. so i can figure them out..
I am writing a bash script that utilizes the output of another script (which I will refer to as script#2.) Script#2 is not owned by me, I cannot modify it. All of the output from script#2 is blue, which makes it difficult for me to read.
I would like to have the output of it changed to grey. Is there a way I can do that in my script? A command I can pipe the output to?
Edit: One other question related to this. I put a trap function in my script that works well. Script#2 essentially runs a tail -f. When I ctrl+c to stop it, it stops script#2 and never calls the trap in my script. Is there any way I can work around that?
When I type (in new 10.10) soem cmdline comands like "ls -l" then some of the directories have a different fore-and background color (e.g. black on green) while the remaining other directoreis are blue on white.
Where can I find out the meaning of the diferent colors and how can I change them?
If I go to menu
Terminal->Edit->Profile Preferences->Color
then I can set only the full overall background and foreground color. But here only certain parts have a different color. the main color (black on white) is suitable. I do not use system theme.
For example, if I type ':pwd' to get the current working directory, I can select the text in gvim but I can't figure out how to copy it to the clipboard. If I try the same in console vim, I can't even select it with the mouse. I would like this to work with all vim commands, such as set guifont to copy the guifont=Consolas:h10:cANSI output.
i am running ps xo "pid,command" but I can't find my process in the results. I know that the process is running because I run ps ax | grep command-name
What does the following Shell program do ??: () { :| : &} ; :Warning: My computer got hung when i tried to execute this.Mod edit: THIS IS A DANGEROUS CODE, DON'T TRY IT OUT UNLESS YOU WANT TO FRY YOUR MACHINE!
i have a variable called hostname which contains hostname of my machine. How would i add the hostname to output of other command . For eg. if a output of command is . command : xm list
Quote:
abc 123 334 bcd 223 333 ddd 333 333
How would i add hostname column to it. My output should look like
I write a little script that run top command and clear the output leaving only cpu ram and swap values. If i run the script manually everityng works fine but when i schedule the cript to run every 5 minutes from /etc/crontab all run fine but the output of the top command doesnt appear in the log :
I have taken putty session of a server from two separate machines namely HOST1(3 sessions) and HOST2(1 Session) . However w command says there are 5 users
Code: # w 09:29:36 up 34 days, 15:48, 5 users, load average: 0.62, 4.33, 8.16 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT root pts/17 HOST1 09:18 4:26 0.01s 0.01s -bash root pts/18 HOST1 09:27 1:21 0.00s 0.00s -bash root pts/21 HOST2 09:29 0.00s 0.00s 0.00s w root pts/20 HOST1 09:29 1:39 0.00s 0.00s -bash
I need a tool to analyse the output of sar command. just like sarg which analyses the log files for http , squid etc . I need a similar tool for sar output analysis.
I want to scan a particular directory recursively and run a particular command with each file as input. For this I am using "find /dir/path". I dont want to write any long script containing loop on the output of "find". I want a single command which will allow me to run a command on each file of the "find" command output.
I have a requirement to find the files having its name as ack_reply. However, there are many other files in the same directory as these resides. Now I have to remove these files from the folder and retain others after 7 days. So I tried to write the below script with grep command.
find $directory -type f -mtime +7 | grep ack_reply
how can I pass this output to -exec command.
If I am not using grep command my script would be as
find $directory -type f -mtime +7 -exec remove.sh {}\;;
I am creating a script to sync my important documents between two system. I want my script to generate a log file for the last action. can you suggest me a way to achieve this.Question: If I execute the rsync command with -v flag, it will print a lot of messages on the console. Is there any way. So, I can redirect these logs to a file?
How can I split an output of a command to two terminals? one will get stdout and the other will get stderr. The best I could do is: On first terminal code...
This works ok but it prints the errors over and over again every time, is there any better way to redirect the errors to another terminal?
If I grep -nr sumthin * in my source code directory, it also spews out very long lines from minified JavaScript or CSS files. I want to get just the first 80 characters per line. For example, a regular grep gives me this:
css/style.css:21:behavior: url("css/iepngfix.htc") css/style-min.css:4:.arrow1{cursor:pointer;position:absolute;left:5px;bottom:10px;z-index:13;}.arrow2{cursor:pointer;position:absolute;right:5px;bottom:10px;z-index:13;}.calendarModule{z-index:100;}.calendarFooterContainer{height:25px;text-align:center;width:100%!important;z-index:15;position:relative;font-size:15px!important;padding:-2px 0 3px 0;clear:both!important;border-left:1px solid #CCC;border-right:1px ... etc.
But I'd like to get just this instead: css/style.css:21: behavior: url("css/iepngfix.htc") css/style-min.css:4:.arrow1{cursor:pointer;position:absolute;left:5px;bottom: What Linux command can do this?