output format

[Gloups]

HI all, i'm sure this will be very easy for scripts experts.

I send a command wich reports things like:

U787A.001.DPM037W-P1-T7,osiris,Universal Serial Bus UHC Spec
U787A.001.DPM037W-P1-C4,osiris,PCI 1Gbps Ethernet UTP
U787A.001.DPM037W-P1-T12,osiris,Other Mass Storage Controller
U787A.001.DPM037W-P1-T10,osiris,Storage controller
U787A.001.DPM037W-P1-C3,osiris,PCI 10/100Mbps Ethernet w/ IPSec


But when i send the same command in a shell script to send the result in a file, i get the result on a single line. I tried different ways using for example a loop to get each result and send it to the output file but space carracters are interpreted as \n

Then, what should i do do to get the result in the ouput file exactly like when i send the command in interactive mode ?

 

[PHV]

What is the endOfLine character(s) sent by your command ?

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[Gloups]

How may i get the EOL character used by the command ?


When i tried with a loop i did something like:

for i in `my command`
do
echo $i>>my_ouput_file
done

With this way to do the result is:

U787A.001.DPM037W-P1-T7,osiris,Universal
Serial
Bus
UHC
Spec
U787A.001.DPM037W-P1-C4,osiris,PCI
1Gbps
Ethernet
UTP
U787A.001.DPM037W-P1-T12,osiris,Other
Mass
Storage
Controller
U787A.001.DPM037W-P1-T10,osiris,Storage
controller
U787A.001.DPM037W-P1-C3,osiris,PCI
10/100Mbps
Ethernet
w/
IPSec

 

[PHV]

What about this ?
your command > my_ouput_file
Or this ?
my_ouput_file | while read i
do echo "$i"
done > my_ouput_file

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[Gloups]

trying those ways i get the same reslut i've got with my loop, the command output resides in a single line.

Assuming the text wich ends each line contain space caracters, i cant cut the line using -d ' '

I also have to get the result not depending of the ouput type

For example i cant sai all the line are beginig with the 'U' caracter then i'll cut before it

 

[rzs0502]

Try:
your_command | sed -e s/U78/\\nU78/g > output_file

"If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been."

 

[Gloups]

That's exactly what i've done for the moment but in this case, i have to assume all my lines will begin with U78.

That's not very clean

 

[hoinz]

try this:
your_command | cat -ve

or this:
cat -ve your_output_file

This will show if there are any mysterious nonprintable characters.
(E.g. the EOL character mentioned by PHV)

Hope this helps

 

[rzs0502]

True.
I cannot seen to recreate this on AIX (ksh - vt100) or Linux (bash - xterm).
Which shell and TERM are you using?


"If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been."

 

[Gloups]

I'm in ksh on an xterm with the power 5 HMC

 

[rzs0502]

Strange...

I tried lsdev -Cc adapter > adapter.lst on the HMC's vterm.
Worked fine. (even if I mail the output)
Do all commands that return a list do the same thing?


"If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been."

 

[Gloups]

lsdev on the power hmc ?? Strange, the HMC is a linux.

the commands i use are partitions management commands like lshwres

 

[PHV]

To discover the EOL: man od

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[rzs0502]

The vterm session was on the AIX LPAR


"If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been."