Commands tagged output redirection (3)

  • Loops over files, runs a command, dumps output to a file

    In this case I'm selecting all php files in a dir, then echoing the filename and piping it to ~/temp/errors.txt. Then I'm running my alias for PHPCS (WordPress flags in my alias), then piping the PHPCS output to grep and looking for GET. Then I'm piping that output to the same file as above. This gets a list of files and under each file the GET security errors for that file. Extrapolate this to run any command on any list of files and pipe the output to a file. Remove the >> ~/temp/errors.txt to get output to the screen rather than to a file. Show Sample Output


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    for f in *php; do echo $f >> ~/temp/errors.txt; phpcsw $f | grep GET >> ~/temp/errors.txt; done
    topher1kenobe · 2023-04-12 14:17:14 367
  • Copy paste contents quickly and save as a file

    Write script or commands in notepad/Editplus/MS word etc, copy the contents, type the above command and click on enter now, paste by right click-ing the mouse. Entire contents in the clip-board gets pasted now again click on Enter to go to new line/next line. Press Ctrl+D to close/save the file. Not always required to vi to create a new file.


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    cat > file_name
    michaelrozar17 · 2012-03-27 11:38:09 4
  • Print all lines containing the word 'jan' to a new file.


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    sed -n '/jan\|Jan\|JAN\|JAn\|jAn\|jAN\|jaN/p' data.txt > jan-only-data.txt
    Kali_Root · 2013-11-15 20:23:53 8

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