logsave - Unix, Linux Command



NAME

logsave: save output of a Linux command to a file.

SYNOPSIS

  • logsave [ -asv ] logfile cmd_prog [ ... ]
  • DESCRIPTION

    logsave program will execute cmd_prog with the specified argument(s), and save a copy of its output to logfile. If the containing directory for logfile does not exist, logsave will accumulate the output in memory until it can be written out. A copy of the output will also be written to standard output. If cmd_prog is a single hyphen ('-'), then instead of executing a program, logsave will take its input from standard input and save it in logfile logsave is useful for saving the output of initial boot scripts until the /var partition is mounted, so the output can be written to /var/log.

    Options

    Tag Description
    -a This option will cause the output to be appended to logfile, instead of replacing its current contents.
    -s This option will cause logsave to skip writing to the log file text which is bracketed with a control-A (ASCII 001 or Start of Header) and control-B (ASCII 002 or Start of Text). This allows progress bar information to be visible to the user on the console, while not being written to the log file.
    -v This option will make logsave to be more verbose in its output to the user.

    EXAMPLES

    Example-1:

    To save the output of the find command to a file called file.txt

    # logsave file.txt find . | head -n 10

    output:

    ./.history
    ./lnxhc-1.2-1.noarch.rpm
    ./modules.dep.bin
    ./temp.php
    ./.bashrc
    ./.elinks
    ./.elinks/bookmarks
    ./.bash_logout
    ./listfiles.sh
    
    

    Example-2:

    To capture the output of a program and sends it too a log-file.

    The -a parameter will let you append to the log-file.

    $ logsave -a output.log echo "hello world"

    output:

    hello world
    
    $ cat output.log
    Log of echo hello world
    Sun Jan  8 12:46:36 2017

    hello world

    Sun Jan  8 12:46:36 2017
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