Another Ubuntu 6.10 Question: Printing the results of a program into an HTML file?

[sciencewhiz]

use pre around the output of the command to preserve the linebreaks.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: sciencewhiz
use pre around the output of the command to preserve the linebreaks.

Not sure I follow.

Just add "pre" before the command?

 

[GTaudiophile]

Okay, this got me a little closer but not quite:

echo "<pre>"`/usr/local/bin/tw_cli /c0 show`"</pre>" > /var/www/status.html

 

[Alone]

00,15,30,45 * * * * echo "<pre>"`/usr/local/bin/tw_cli /c0/u0 show`"</pre>" > /var/www/status.html

EDIT: Ah, you got it.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: Alone

00,15,30,45 * * * * echo "<pre>"`/usr/local/bin/tw_cli /c0/u0 show`"</pre>" > /var/www/status.html

EDIT: Ah, you got it.

I PMed you the link earlier didn't I? You can see the current output.

Better but still not where I want it...what I see at the command line is what I would like to see in the HTML file.

 

[Alone]

Echo isn't preserving the line breaks, it seems. Hm..

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: Alone
Echo isn't preserving the line breaks, it seems. Hm..

LOL. It's really just me being anal about formatting.

This really isn't worth people sweating over but the help is indeed appreciated 🙂

 

[Alone]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: Alone
Echo isn't preserving the line breaks, it seems. Hm..

LOL. It's really just me being anal about formatting.

This really isn't worth people sweating over but the help is indeed appreciated 🙂

Bah, it's a chance to learn. 😉

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: Alone

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: Alone
Echo isn't preserving the line breaks, it seems. Hm..

LOL. It's really just me being anal about formatting.

This really isn't worth people sweating over but the help is indeed appreciated 🙂

Bah, it's a chance to learn. 😉

Fun isn't it?

 

[Alone]

Can you try it with the pre tags so I can see? I'm not sure I'm understanding properly.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: Alone
Can you try it with the pre tags so I can see? I'm not sure I'm understanding properly.

The current result is with pre tags.

 

[Alone]

So it is. Interesting.

 

[GTaudiophile]

If you go to status2.html it shows the result without the pre tags.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Is it possible to have three seperate commands write to the same HTML file?

 

[Alone]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Is it possible to have three seperate commands write to the same HTML file?

Sure. Just echo like we were before. The first command should use one ">" to replace the existing contents, the next two should use two ">"'s to append to the existing output. Now it'll be something like...

echo `/usr/local/bin/tw_cli /c0/u0-0 show` > /var/www/status.html && echo `/usr/local/bin/tw_cli /c0/u0-1 show` >> /var/www/status.html

 

[GTaudiophile]

And last but maybe not least...how could I add a time/date stamp to that HTML file?

 

[Alone]

Oh man, why am I always trying to do things the hard way?

00,15,30,45 * * * * date > /var/www/status.html && `/usr/local/bin/tw_cli /c0/u0 show` >> /var/www/status.html

 

[GTaudiophile]

I had the solution a while ago.

But I just figures out that ' does not mean `.

Bloody syntax.

Anyway, if you check out the status.html you will see my final product.

I am happy.

 

[GTaudiophile]

I basically found a new command for the utility. Instead of show, I used

info c0 u0 status = status of the entire RAID array

info c0 p0 status = status of drive 0

info c0 p1 status = status of drive 1

 

[Alone]

Nice and clean.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: Alone
Nice and clean.

Thanks.

Couldn't have done it without you.

Time for bed 🙂

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Nice.

I think I need more info on the HTML formatting part.

you'd probably have to write a script or something.


'/usr/local/bin/tw_cli /c0/u0 show' | thescript > x.html

 

[sourceninja]

to format it it you are going to ether be writing a large shell script, bash, perl, php, python, ruby, etc can all accomplish this.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Thanks but I think I found a simple yet adequate solution for now.