topic Re: Placing text before command output in Operating System - HP-UX

Placing text before command output

Jeffrey S. Bromley — Mon, 30 Jul 2001 13:58:09 GMT

Does anyone know how to place text before the output of a command? Basically, what I am trying to do is run a 'bdf', and then format the output like:

Server Name: /dev/vg00/lvol1 kbytes used avail

Re: Placing text before command output

Mark van Hassel — Mon, 30 Jul 2001 14:04:02 GMT

Hi,

bdf | while read line
do
echo "`hostname` : $line"
done

Re: Placing text before command output

Rodney Hills — Mon, 30 Jul 2001 14:04:49 GMT

sed probabily would work the best

bdf | sed -e 's/^/server:/' >resultfile.txt

Re: Placing text before command output

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 30 Jul 2001 14:11:50 GMT

Hi Jeffrey:

Depending on what you want to do the number od methods is legion.

1) echo "Server Name: \c"
bdf

2) HNAME=`hostname`
bdf | awk -v host=${HNAME} '{print "Server Name: ",host," ",$0}'

3) You could use paste to combine two files

Just a few, Clay

Re: Placing text before command output

Jeffrey S. Bromley — Mon, 30 Jul 2001 14:18:17 GMT

Thanks for all the prompt replies. It is really appreciated