Re: pipe help

[Andrew Perrin <aperrin@email.unc.edu>]

I do almost exactly this task using a small perl script:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

`/bin/date`;
`traceroute imap.unc.edu`;

__END__

and have a crontab entry running the script >> /var/log/pinglog
at the appropriate times.

Hope this helps.

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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin@unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
 Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
      269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA


On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote:

> I think this should be simple...
> 
> I want to run a command (traceroute) and have the date/time listed
> before the trace output. I'll do this multiple times and want to keep
> appending to the same file.
> 
> The results will ideally look something like this:
> 
> 'date/time'
> (trace results)
> 
> 'date/time'
> (trace results)
> 
> and so on...
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Hall
> 
> 
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