Questions tagged [pipe]
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How to run truss with piped command in Solaris
How to run a truss command with piped output?
eg.
# truss -leDo /tmp/truss.out tar cvf - dirs/ | gzip -1 > archive.tar.gz
I get only the "tar" output in truss, not from gzip!

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How to get the output of a php script executed by a piped mail?
I've configured an email address to pipe (forward) all emails to /path/to/script.php
I thought I'll receive the output of the script as an email reply but it doesn't work.
How can I get the output of the script and send a reply email with the output…

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Why is this apache php piped log script not working properly?
i have a piped logging program like this:
#!/usr/bin/php

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receiving two emails to virtual alias
have a virtual alias setup in /etc/postfix/virtual that reads:
@mydomain.com mydomainincoming
I then have a pipe setup in /etc/aliases that reads:
mydomainincoming: "|/var/path_to_script/myscript.php"
whenever I send mail to more than one user such…

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How do I copy stdout and stderr into a log file in Windows XP?
I have a script that I'm running from a command line. I want the stdout and stderr to be displayed on the screen and also to be copied into a logfile with append.
What is the syntax for this piping/redirection?

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sed can't find a file that obviously exists
I run the following command which comments out all lines that contain the text "dlclose"
grep -lIR "dlclose" . | grep -v ".svn" | xargs sed -i "s/.*dlclose.*/\/\/&/g"
However, sed claims that the piped files don't exist:
sed: can't read…

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Comment all lines matching some pattern
I need to comment out all lines containing "dlclose" for each file in the current directory and any sub-directories (recursively). This is my best guess so far given what I was able to find out from various guides.
grep -lIR "dlclose" . | grep -v…

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Scripting (piping) commands into a telnet session
i use a cronjob to execute a filetransfer to a host and then telnet into the host and pipe some commands into it.
HOST=somehost
USER=postgres
PASSWD=blabla
ftp -n -v $HOST <

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Top like viewer eating tail -f stream
I'm searching for a command line tool working with a stream of lines (tail -f typically) and counting them like :
tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log | cut -d' ' -f1 | SOME_COMMAND
and displaying a top-like view as :
52 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
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Exim 4 pipe select command/script from mysql db
Is there an option to run a mysql lookup in the pipe driver of exim?
MYSQL_Q_SCRIPT=SELECT script FROM MYSQL_EMAILTABLE WHERE domain='${quote_mysql:$domain}' AND local_part='${quote_mysql:$local_part}'
command = "${lookup mysql…

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How to make PowerShell read from a pipe?
I need to make PowerShell on Windows Server 2019 to read from a (not named) pipe and launch the commands it reads, so I'll be able to launch multiple commands on the same shell, even without knowing them ahead.
Normal pipe makes it exit (probably on…

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cmd pipe -> System cannot find specified path
Using cmd on Windows 10 Pro 21H2, when I try
echo Hello | find "Bye"
I get The system cannot find the specified path. Same thing if trying
echo Hello | C:\Windows\System32\find.exe "Bye"
So PATH does not appear to be the problem.
I need this…

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re-parenting to screen two processes joined by pipe
Let's say in a PuTTY connection I start
mysqldump --host host1 --databases db1 db2 db3 | mysql
which creates two processes: mysqldump with PID 5800 and mysql with PID 5801. Is it possible to let the running processes continue execution when I want…
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Command that returns exit code still returning 0 when using "command 2>&1 | tee -a /var/log/file.log"
I'm running a script that executes a command and save the output to a file in /var/log. After that, it gets the exit code and execute another command based on an if/else condition. The problem is: 2>&1 | tee -a /var/log/file.log always returns 0,…

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Backuppc | Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE)
I am running backuppc version 3.3.1 on an Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS, I try to backup several Linux servers, almost Debian, ubuntu or proxmox hosts.
My issue is that when I run the Full/Incermental backup from webUI I got the message:
2018-08-06 14:22:32…

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