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How can you move (or copy) all files of a certain type to a directory in Unix?
I'm not very familiar with all the tricks of grep/find/awk/xargs quite yet, so be patient with me =]
I have a particular file type say *.xxx, in random places throughout a certain directory. How can ...
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bash: redirect the stderr/stdout of a running process?
I have a running process running in a bash terminal that is printing some prompt, and I would like to send it to the background with the stderr/stdout prompt that is printing either redirected to ...
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STDOUT redirection to a file does not work if Groovy script run directly from command line (.groovy in PATHEXT)
I've updated the title, please see update below for the reason.
I have asked this question on Stackoverflow, but still didn't receive an answer.
Groovy: redirect stdout to a file does not work.
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Different output when redirecting
$ mysql -e 'select a,b from tablefoo' databasename
yields
+---+---+
| a | b |
+---+---+
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 1 |
+---+---+
whereas
$ mysql -e 'select a,b from tablefoo' databasename > file
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How to tar/untar the output on the fly
What is the idiomatic way to do the following
tar to stdout
read this tar output from stdout and extract to some other folder.
My solution is
tar --to-stdout .. | tar -C somefolder -xvf -
But ...
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What is the use of binary output on stdout?
Some programs print their binary output directly on stdout. Here are some examples:
tar -c file.png
dd if=file.png
Well, I see that the output can be redirected to a file. But these programs ...
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bash - record output after program execution
I know that I can redirect stdout to a file before running a script, but is there a way to access the whole output of a program that already ran? When the output is too long it gets cut out by the ...
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Piping results back into the program that generates them
I've got a program that can take input from stdin and produces output in the stdout like this:
cat initial_input.txt | myprogram myindex myoptions - | filter_output > outfile.txt
The program ...
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Log rotation of stdout?
I have a Linux program which can write information to stdout and stderr.
I have a shell script which redirects that output to a file in /var/log. (Via >> and 2>&1.)
Is there a way to ...
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Redirect 7-zip's command-line output to /dev/null on Windows when extracting a 7z file
I have a command such as "c:\program files\7-zip\7z.exe" x foo.7z -y which will extract (with full paths) to the current directory.
What it does that I don't want, though, is spool out the individual ...
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Windows: Command line redirection to text file while also seeing output
I'm writing a C program in Windows, my printf calls print to the command line, and I know that I can redirect all this output to a text file using:
myProgram.exe > mylog.txt
However, I wish to ...
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Do each application need to support writing to /dev/stdout or /dev/fd1 or is that handled transparently by the OS?
I tried this command to print the buffer of an existing screen session to stdout but I don't know why it doesn't print anything.
screen -x lftp -X hardcopy /dev/fd/1
screen -x lftp -X hardcopy ...
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copy (split?) stdout instead of redirecting it
In Bash, I'd like to redirect stdout to a file (>> mylog.txt) but also see the stdout output on the screen..
How can I do it with bash?
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Windows how to redirect file parameter to stdout? (Windows equivalent of `/dev/stdout`)
Windows console:
Tool A can write binary data to a file, but has no option for telling it to use stdout.
Tool B can read binary data from stdin and process the info in it.
How can I get the output ...
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Doing arithmetic and passing it to the next command
I know how to do this in /bin/sh, but I'm struggling a bit in Windows.
I know you can do arithmetic on 32-bit signed integers with
SET /a 2+2
4
But how do I pass this to the next command? For ...
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pipe a program into less
I'm taking the dive into setting up and learning git and at the same time learning bash. I'm trying to do something simple as view the help section of
$ git config
unfortunately, when I type that ...
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Keep stdout on screen AND in File
I open a command prompt window in XP. There I run a command line program (foo.exe) and I want to capture stdout in a file. So I run it like this:
foo > fooResult.txt
However, at the same time I ...
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java -version doesn't write to stdout?
Either I'm doing something silly or Sun is. How come something like:
java -version > version.txt
Still prints out to stdout and leaves version.txt empty? I'm checking out the exit code, and it's ...
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linux output show only right of ':'
I forgot a lot of my command line. I am doing cat file | grep "error" and i would like it to show everything to the right of G:/ including G:/ if possible. I figure its an awk command but i dont know ...
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user crontabs don't work, only /etc/crontab
Hi when I use the command
crontab -e
to set up cron, the commands get triggered (according to syslog) but nothing happens. Also if I run sudo crontab -e.
The only way to actually get cron working ...
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stdout and stderr of script doesn't get redirected when executed by cron
./script &>> log.txt
I get a nice logfile, but if I have the same command executed by cron, lets say the crontab looks like this:
* * * * * '/home/user/script &>> /home/user/log.txt'
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stdout and key press
when in console, if I press a key, some interrupt controller sends code of that key to CPU, which looks into some table and than represent that keypress by printing some charracter to stdout. But, is ...
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tee for Windows?
Does Windows provide the basic tee facility for copying standard input to an arbitrary set of files and then back out to standard output?
I generally download a generic tee program, but curious if ...
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How to I configure Eclipse PDT 2.1 to display PHP CLI output in the console?
Starting with a recent version of Eclipse PDT, the standard out and standard error from executed PHP CLI code doesn't appear in the console anymore. (It still shows up in the Debug-perspective in the ...
