On czw, 2008-09-11 at 07:53 -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote:
> Folks, I'm trying to capture/grep specific given info from the subject
> output, like this:
>
> #spamassassin -D --lint | grep database
>
> I KNOW that doesn't work, but describes my issue at hand. I've spent an
> hour+ searching for others with this same question without success. I
> remember this being posted on this list apprx 2 years ago and I can't find
> it now.
>
> Piping and grepping is easy to grab on other commands, but this one escapes
> me.

I don't understand what's your problem. You can't redirect stderr to
different stream or what?

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Mariusz Kruk a écrit :
> On czw, 2008-09-11 at 07:53 -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote:
>> Folks, I'm trying to capture/grep specific given info from the subject
>> output, like this:
>>
>> #spamassassin -D --lint | grep database
>>
>> I KNOW that doesn't work, but describes my issue at hand. I've spent an
>> hour+ searching for others with this same question without success. I
>> remember this being posted on this list apprx 2 years ago and I can't find
>> it now.
>>
>> Piping and grepping is easy to grab on other commands, but this one escapes
>> me.
>
> I don't understand what's your problem. You can't redirect stderr to
> different stream or what?
>

No need for that attitude, we were all newbies once...
It wouldn't have taken any longer to give the actual solution:

spamassassin -D --lint 2>&1 | grep database

John.

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Jack L. Stone wrote:
> Folks, I'm trying to capture/grep specific given info from the subject
> output, like this:
>
> #spamassassin -D --lint | grep database
>
> I KNOW that doesn't work, but describes my issue at hand. I've spent an
> hour+ searching for others with this same question without success. I
> remember this being posted on this list apprx 2 years ago and I can't find
> it now.
>
> Piping and grepping is easy to grab on other commands, but this one escapes
> me.
>

You need to redirect stderr to stdout if you want to use a pipe.

spamassassin -D --lint 2>&1 | grep database


You can also dump it to a file:

spamassassin -D --lint 2> somefile.txt

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 07:53 -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote:
> Folks, I'm trying to capture/grep specific given info from the subject
> output, like this:
>
> #spamassassin -D --lint | grep database
>
spamassassin -D --lint 2>&1 | grep database

On czw, 2008-09-11 at 15:06 +0200, John Wil**** wrote:
> No need for that attitude, we were all newbies once...

Sorry, wasn't meant as an insult or anything like that. Was more like
surprised because I really didn't understand the problem.

> It wouldn't have taken any longer to give the actual solution:
>
> spamassassin -D --lint 2>&1 | grep database

Unless, of course, you're using another shell.
I'd send the original asker to man page of his shell anyway. To read
about input/output redirection. It can be quite useful in many other
cases.

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At 03:16 PM 9.11.2008 +0200, Mariusz Kruk wrote:
>On czw, 2008-09-11 at 15:06 +0200, John Wil**** wrote:
>> No need for that attitude, we were all newbies once...
>
>Sorry, wasn't meant as an insult or anything like that. Was more like
>surprised because I really didn't understand the problem.
>
>> It wouldn't have taken any longer to give the actual solution:
>>
>> spamassassin -D --lint 2>&1 | grep database
>
>Unless, of course, you're using another shell.
>I'd send the original asker to man page of his shell anyway. To read
>about input/output redirection. It can be quite useful in many other
>cases.
>
>--
> Kruk@ -\ | Microsoft Office 2000: Wzrasta Twoje IQ

Yes, it was the shell "csh" I use. Tried "sh" and the suggested redirects
work fine.

Thanks....
Jack

(^_^)
Happy trails,
Jack L. Stone

System Admin
Sage-american

At 03:16 PM 9.11.2008 +0200, Mariusz Kruk wrote:
>On czw, 2008-09-11 at 15:06 +0200, John Wil**** wrote:
>> No need for that attitude, we were all newbies once...
>
>Sorry, wasn't meant as an insult or anything like that. Was more like
>surprised because I really didn't understand the problem.
>
>> It wouldn't have taken any longer to give the actual solution:
>>
>> spamassassin -D --lint 2>&1 | grep database
>
>Unless, of course, you're using another shell.
>I'd send the original asker to man page of his shell anyway. To read
>about input/output redirection. It can be quite useful in many other
>cases.
>
>--

Sorry to be a bother on this again, it is the shell issue. Is anyone
running the csh (or tcsh) shell and know what the syntax should be to make
this work? It works in the borne shell (sh). I've read the man pages on the
shells but no joy with various efforts:

(this is sh) spamassassin -D --lint 2>&1 | grep database
(what for csh?) spamassassin -D --lint ?commands?

Thanks again,
Jack

(^_^)
Happy trails,
Jack L. Stone

System Admin
Sage-american

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:45:43 -0500
"Jack L. Stone" wrote:

> Sorry to be a bother on this again, it is the shell issue. Is anyone
> running the csh (or tcsh) shell and know what the syntax should be to
> make this work? It works in the borne shell (sh). I've read the man
> pages on the shells but no joy with various efforts:
>
> (this is sh) spamassassin -D --lint 2>&1 | grep database
> (what for csh?) spamassassin -D --lint ?commands?

Try: spamassassin -D --lint |& grep database

My tcsh man page only refers to stderr as "diagnostic output."

> Thanks again,
> Jack

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On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Jack L. Stone wrote:

> Sorry to be a bother on this again, it is the shell issue. Is anyone
> running the csh (or tcsh) shell and know what the syntax should be to make
> this work? It works in the borne shell (sh). I've read the man pages on the
> shells but no joy with various efforts:
>
> (this is sh) spamassassin -D --lint 2>&1 | grep database
> (what for csh?) spamassassin -D --lint ?commands?
>
> Thanks again,
> Jack

On our systems in the "man" page for csh under the section on
Input/Output redirection it has a stanza that says:

Diagnostic output can be directed through a pipe with the standard
output. Simply use the form |& rather than | by itself.


So that means that you should be able to do the following:

spamassassin -D --lint |& grep database

This works on SuSE, RedHat, HP-UX (the various flavors of Unix that
I have easy access to , so it -should- work for you.

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