On 04/06/2015 09:10 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
I am writing someone a letter. He has script that runs apt-get
update/grade in one swoop. Something happened once and he needed to see
what files had upgraded but because nothing print to screen he had no
idea which files did. Could someone tell me if I am telling it
correctly? In the unfinished paragraph I am unsure how to finish it.
What I want to do is prepend 'file' with the date. How is it done?
Here is the letter:
This will prepend the file with a date that is the year, month, day,
hour, minute , second all run together.
sudo apt-get update >$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S")-file
But you might be able to get what you want by looking at the dpkg log in
/var/log/dpkg.log
If you want to continue to redirect your apt output to a file may I
suggest instead of just directly redirection everything to a file that
you instead send it through tee so that you can both see it and get your
file.
So instead of using > write your file do this:
sudo apt-get update | tee $(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S")-file
and instead of using >> to append to a file do this:
sudo apt-get update | tee -a $(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S")-file
I hope that helps.
Brian Cluff
you know wiz, you might want to make your script print the output of
update/upgrade to a file in case something like this happens again and
you need to see what it did. You do this by typing:
sudo apt-get update > file
sudo apt-get upgrade >> file
If you want it to print any errors that may have scrolled by to the file
you'll have to pre-pend the carrots with '&2' to make it look like this:
sudo apt-get update &2> file
and
sudo apt-get upgrade &2>> file
I'm pretty sure that is how it is done at least. I wouldn't worry about
making 'file' unique for each time you run it as you'll never look at it
unless there is a problem. If you really want to do that
:-)~MIKE~(-:
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