If Shlomo uses X-Window, then he can have his script write its stuff to a
file.
Then in another window, he can run:
tail -f script-output-file
and in a third window, he can run:
tail -f script-output-file | grep whatever\.\*pattern
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On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Alex Chudnovsky wrote:
> On Thursday 13 March 2003 23:11, shlomo solomon wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a script that puts a lot of output on the screen. I want to look for
> > a particular string in the output, so I pipe the output to GREP. That works
> > fine, but here's the problem. I also want to see the output on the
> > terminal, and the pipe to GREP means I only get to see the line that
> > matches the string I'm looking for - not **ALL** the screen output. Is
> > there a way to see output on the screen AND pipe it to GREP at the same
> > time?
> Use "tee". Kludge but works.
> >
> > BTW - I have a partial solution and that's to pipe to a file and then do 2
> > separate operations - cat the file to the screen and GREP the file to find
> > what I'm looking for. The problem is that I then see the output only after
> > the script has finished running - not **online**.
> >
> > Any ideas?- TIA
> Two solutions :
> - Pipe the output to "less" - it has a search facility - press "/", enter the
> pattern and here you go
> - "Tee" the output to the terminal ( it is Unix clone, after all, each device
> is a file).
> my_script | tee terminal_device | grep some_string
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