On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Adam Maloney wrote:
> You want pfmon to send the data to STDOUT instead of a file, and then
> pipe it to awk (as John suggested). If it's a "good" program, then by
> not specifying a filename it will probably just default to STDOUT. Or
> with some commands you can specify "-" as the file to mean stdout.
>
> So, as John suggested,
>
> pfmon | awk '{ SOME STUFF }' > output_file
>
Or, if it's not a friendly program you might be able to use mkfifo to
create a named pipe to hand it as a filename, then tail the pipe in a
separate process. Or something like that.
strayf at freeshell.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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