Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:48:21 -0500 From: Lord Of Hyphens <lordofhyphens@gmail.com> To: Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reproduce previous stdout output without running previous command Message-ID: <b0442c260906082048u6deeb5a8v44077bf92afc58dc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <b6c05a470906082044l69616b2h531adaa1fdf9f0e@mail.gmail.com> References: <b6c05a470906082044l69616b2h531adaa1fdf9f0e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com>wrote: > OK, this is perhaps a weird question, capable of being very confusing. > So let's take a "for instance". > > Suppose I run something like the Linux command "fdupes" on a directory > with many large files. This operation will take considerable time to > complete. When it completes, a lot of output is send to stdout > (displayed on the terminal). > > Further suppose that after running the command, I decide I want to > save the output to a text file, so I can analyze the results outside > of the terminal. What can I do? Well, I can do a traditional > "copy-and-paste", or I could re-enter the previous command and send it > to a text file (which I ought to have done in the first place). > > But is there another option? Is there some variable (such as, > hypothetically, $output[n], where n=some integer index) that I could > use to store the results in a text file? Such an option might look > like the following: > > $ fdupes -r ~/directorywithlotsoflargefiles > > (.....lots of output, woops, should have sent to a text file!....) > > $ output[1] >> ~/textfile.txt > > Hopefully this has made (some) sense. > <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Check the manpage for tee. That should give you a solution you're looking for. --Joseph Lenox -- "Nothing unreal exists." - Kiri-kin-tha's First Law of Metaphysics.
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