Ubuntu :: Redirect The Cron Output To Screen?
Oct 15, 2010
i got a bash script which can remind me my friends' birthday ,and i want run it as a cron job everyday,but the linux just emails me the output.Now my question is how to how to redirect the cron output to screen.
PS: when i run the script mannually ,it runs very well,so my script is good. And i have tried :
1.30 8 * * * root /home/birth.sh >/dev/console
it shows nothing
2. 30 8 * * * root /home/birth.sh >/dev/tty1
the same as 1
3. 30 8 * * * root /home/birth.sh >/dev/tty
it shows:/bin/sh: cannot create /dev/tty: No such device or address
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Oct 26, 2010
To redirect standard output to multiple files:
Code:
echo Test | tee file1 file2
My problem is that the word "Test" still displays to the screen? I want same effect as:
Code:
echo Test > file1
but with multiple file redirection.
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Jul 6, 2010
Is there one command that will let me record an entire terminal session (with any possible errors) to a text file while also seeing all output on screen too? I know it can be done for individual commands, but I'm looking to do this for an entire session where the individual commands will be normal (i.e., not piped into tee, etc.). It would be even better if the command prompt is captured too. The obvious utility of this makes me think someone surely has come up with a solution long ago (probably in the 60's).(I'm sure it goes without saying, but subsequent output in that session should be appended to the file. The file should contain the full history, with all output and errors, of the session.)
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Sep 7, 2010
I am trying to display a text using crontab. My settings :
*/2 * * * * /bin/echo "hello"
This setting sends a mail to the user, instead of displaying on the screen. Now tried changing the setting to:
*/2 * * * * /bin/echo "hello" > /dev/tty1
Now I can see the text on the screen, but this setting comes with a catch. What would happen if the user changes the terminal. for instance if he gets into tty2, he wont have write access on tty1. So the user gets a mail saying "permission denied". Is there any way that I can force the user to use a particular terminal or can a cron job be set in a way such that the user would get the text irrespective of the terminal he logs in.
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Jan 29, 2011
I have added some executable scripts to /etc/cron.daily but don't get the stdout/stderr output from them as mail (or anywhere else I have found). At least one of them is running (because I can see that it has added a file to the disk).
The peculiar thing is that I do get the output from /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch (part of the logwatch package) as an email each day.
The MAILTO line in /etc/crontab is "MAILTO=root" (unchanged from default). Same for /etc/anacrontab.
I do have an alias at the end of /etc/aliases which redirects root's mail to my own account, but this alias works fine for mail I send manually. (It also appears to work fine for the output from the file /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch.)
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Mar 9, 2011
I am trying to grep multiple numbers from file, grep does have the -f option for that.
Code: grep -f <`seq 500 520` /etc/passwd I know this could be done with
Code: for i in `seq 500 520`; do grep "$i" /etc/passwd; done But my question is fare more behind this example. It is possible to redirect one command output which will be treat as a content of file for another command ?
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Sep 16, 2010
My Problem: The output redirection auf a script works if the script is called in the terminal but not when its called via crontab.
My Situation: I have 2 scripts:
~/backup1
Code:
echo backup a to c
rsync -a -v --progress --delete --exclude=.Trash-1000 /path/a/ /path/c/backup/
echo backup b to c
[Code]...
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Jun 3, 2010
if I'm posting to the wrong forum. Be so kind to tell me where to better ask this question, as I'm really not finding the right words to google for.So, I have a shell application (fdb) which is a Flash debugger. I want to run it using bash script, capture it's output and pass it the commands (it can read from STDIN). The reason I want to do so is that Flash Builder (the IDE for Flash development) is plain stupid when it comes to compilation, and it won't allow me to compile any file in the project... so, I found out that I can make Eclipse to run an external tool. This external tool is my *.sh file whichches the compiler, and then it launches the debugger.The Eclipse console can display the compilation results, or errors. When I run the debugger it can even pass the input from Eclipse console to the debugger, however, the output from the debugger isn't shown.
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Mar 9, 2011
I want to redirect the output of a command to a file, but not at the end of the file, but after a line. Do you know how can I do it?
Something like:
cat file_a | grep some_text >> resulting_file
# in this file I need to place the output from grep, but not at the bottom of resulting_file, like it would normally happen, but after line .. 3 , for example
Then, if file_a is:
abc x
some_text q
zxc w
[Code]....
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Apr 11, 2011
I'd like to redirect the output to a file and to the console. I know about tee but the issue is that it waits until the first process finishes.e.gecho "hello world" | tee test.txtfirst calls echo and then tee.Is there a way to redirect "on the fly" ?
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Apr 7, 2010
How to redirect output from dd command to /dev/null ?
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Aug 6, 2010
I am again struggling to make a script work, but hey, it is fun, I am learning new things. I discovered the set -x option which was, for me, like the second coming. Still, what I am not able to do is redirect ALL output to a (log) file, including what is produced by the -x setting. Let's assume a very simple script:
Code: #!/bin/bash
set -x
source="/home/atelier/Bureau/"
ls -la $source and I am running it as . test.sh >> /var/log/test.rmcb.log
The result of ls goes inded into the log file, but the rest still shows on the console where I am running the script: Code: ++ source=/home/atelier/Bureau/
++ ls --color=auto -la /home/atelier/Bureau/ Is there a way to redirect EVERYTHING to the log file ?
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Jun 29, 2010
Ubuntu 10.04
I booted to command line only and entered the following command: Sudo Xorg -configure > xorglog.txt
the command seems to run just fine and does create a new xorg.conf.new file but I would like to see all the output of the Xorg -configure command but it just scrolls by too fast and I can't go back to see it. Hence this is why I'm trying to do the > . It seems to ignore the >.
how I can see what the command is doing?
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Nov 6, 2010
I am using curl as the following
Code:
curl "http://site.com/pages/{1,2,3,4,5}.html" > /home/myuser/allpages.html
i need to save each page in a separate page by the way i have tried this command
Code:
curl "http://site.com/pages/{1,2,3,4,5}.html" > /home/myuser/{1,2,3,4,5}.html
but it displays error
Code:
ambiguous redirect
is there any way to do that
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Apr 25, 2011
I was trying to redirect the output of two variables to different columns of a .csv file in MS excel like this,
Code:
echo "$a $b" > abc.csv
But I am getting both $a and $b in the same column, is there anything I can use instead of to move the value of $b to the next column? Or is there a good different approach to do it?
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Mar 29, 2011
I'm doing some commands on a remote server (using ssh to log on to the remote server, did a ssh key swap), how do i redirect the output of a command back to the local server ?the person who helps me out is my HERO i'm really stuck on this and it would bring me a lot further if i get this to work
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Aug 6, 2010
How do run aureport as root and redirect it's output to a directory that's only writeable by root?
Ex: sudo -u root aureport > /var/log/test.report
/var/log/test.report permission denied
/var/log has these permissions:
drwxr-xr-x root root
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Oct 31, 2010
I would really like to capture the output of scp and my file's progress. Scp updates the transfer rate every 1 second, and I will like to save the transfer rate at every update. So for example, if the file transfer takes 30 seconds, I would like 30 reports of the transfer rate.
The output looks like:
Code:
file.dat 1% 3664KB 938.5KB/s 05:48
Whenever I try a simple redirect like:
Code:
scp file.dat 192.168.1.100:~/ &> output
... it does not save the rate at every update, it only shows the final rate.
If I try using typescript by starting "script" ... it's the same deal.
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May 21, 2011
I have a huge database of students, I would like extract these data and write to individual file for each students.
I am running a loop in shell program (.sh file), the output of each run in the loop need to redirected to a file with variable name.
I tried the following line, but it did not work, where BodyMsg is the data and Rollno is the students roll number.
echo $BodyMsg > $RolNo".html"
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May 18, 2009
I need to output of the script to the remote server via redirect. I created a simple script for your reference.Quote:
#!/bin/bash
W=`/usr/bin/w`
FREE=`/usr/bin/free`
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Jan 22, 2011
I want to compare the quality of a sound file (voice) before and after its transmission via a softphone (sjphone in my case). For this, i need to redirect the sound played, to the sound input (microphone or line-in).
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Apr 17, 2010
i have a process launch by another app, i want to see the output (that is in console) in a terminal (gnome-terminal or tty); how can i capture de standart I/O from a process. my process (aria2) is launch by firefox and the output of ps is like:
# ps aux | grep aria2
dorian 30289 2.8 0.1 12148 4048 ? D 07:08 0:03 aria2c --continue -d /home/downloads/so/suse --referer=http://software.opensuse.org/112/en
...is running but i cant see the output (download state), how can i capture or redirect standart I/O to my terminal to get something like the output of:
$ aria2c --continue -d /home/downloads/so/suse --referer=http://software.opensuse.org/112/en --load-cookies=/tmp/flashgot.h2fnxf84.default/cookies --input-file=/tmp/flashgot.h2fnxf84.default/flashgot.fgt
[#1 SIZE:6.7MiB/4,289.3MiB(0%) CN:5 SPD:25.3KiBs ETA:48h01m01s]
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Feb 11, 2010
I wrote a short script that sleeps for 30 seconds then outputs "Done" to the screen:
sleep 30
echo Done
now I want to re-direct the output to a file, I tried:
./scriptName& > fileName
Didn't work, "Done" still came out to the screen.
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Aug 25, 2009
I have a python script that when run outputs to screen.
eg.
./international_sms_check.py 0403000511 919227434827
TS 21 check ok
TS 22 check ok
sms successfully delivered from 61403000511 to 919227434827
But when I try:./international_sms_check.py 0403000511 919227434827 > test
The file test is created but there is nothing in it.if I try ls > test this works fine with output of ls redirected to file test.
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Feb 11, 2010
I have got a script with an outer and inner loop. The inner loop issues loads of echo's which need to be redirected to a log file determined by the outer loop. The obvious solution is to redirect every echo to >$LOG and set LOG in the outer loop.
Code:
for f in $FILES ; do
LOG=<logfile>
for l in $LINES ; do
[code]....
it is possible to map stdout to $LOG in the outer loop without having to redirect every subsequent individual command output?
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Sep 6, 2010
I did a select on my db and now I need that this if consult return true for me salve the columns information in file. How I do this in Shell?!
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Aug 2, 2011
I have a TV card connected to my Dish box, and I would like to use it on my computer. The tv card works fine, and the audio is connected to my line in. The audio card receives the audio signal, and I can set the volume and record it without any problem, but I can't get it to redirect to an output in order to hear the sound. I have been battling with this issue since a kernel update back when 11.2 was about to come out. Back then, the alsa mixer had an option called audio loop-back, which did the trick. Since I know I ca record the audio and play it back without any problem, is there an application that can do this automatically and simultaneously?
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Jan 10, 2011
I am trying to automate an svnadmin dump command for a backup script, and I want to do something like this:
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This seems to work, in that it looks through each svn repository in /var/svn, and runs svnadmin dump on it.
However, the second {} in the exec command doesn't get substituted for the name of the directory being processed. It basically just results a single file named {}.svn.
I suspect that this is because the shell interprets > to end the find command, and it tries redirecting stdout from that command to the file named {}.svn.
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Jan 13, 2011
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May 27, 2009
I' running awstats via
/etc/logrotate.d/httpd
prerotate
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