Given a db2 proc call's output:
$ db2 "call SOME_PROC(103,5,0,'','',0,0)"
Return Status = 0
I wish to just get the value and when I 'chain-em-up' it does not work as I think it should, so given:
$ db2 "call SOME_PROC(103,5,0,'','',0,0)" | sed -rn 's/ *Return Status *= *([0-9]+)/\1/p'
0
I try to chain 'em up:
$ var=$(db2 "call SOME_PROC(103,5,0,'','',0,0)" | sed -rn 's/ *Return Status *= *([0-9]+)/\1/p')
$ echo $var
You get nothin !
But if you redirect to tmp file:
$ db2 "call SOME_PROC(103,5,0,'','',0,0)" > /tmp/fff
$ var=$(cat /tmp/fff | sed -rn 's/ *Return Status *= *([0-9]+)/\1/p')
$ echo $var
0
You do get it ...
Similarly if you put in var:
$ var=$(db2 "call DB2INST1.USP_SPOTLIGHT_GET_DATA(103,5,0,'','',0,0)")
$ var=$(echo $var | sed -rn 's/ *Return Status *= *([0-9]+)/\1/p')
$ echo $var
0
You also get it ...
Is there a way to get value as my first attempt? And also I wonder why does it not work? What am I missing?
I also tried the below and it also givs nothing!
cat <(db2 -x "call DB2INST1.USP_SPOTLIGHT_GET_DATA(103,5,0,'','',0,0)" | sed -rn 's/ *Return Status *= *([0-9]+)/\1/p')
The db2 command-line interface requires that the db2 command be issued as a direct child of the parent of the command which initiated the connection. In other words, the db2 call and db2 connect commands need to be initiated from the same shell process.
That does not interact well with many shell features:
pipelines: cmd1 | cmd2 runs both commands in subshells (different processes).
command substitution: $(cmd) runs the command in a subshell.
process substitution (bash): <(cmd) runs the command in a subshell.
However, if the shell is bash, the situation is not quite that restricted, so under some circumstances the above constructions will still work with db2. In pipelines and command substitution, bash will optimize away the subshell if the command to be run in the subshell is simple enough. (Roughly speaking, it must be a simple command without redirects.)
So, for example, if some bash process P executes
cmd1 | cmd2
then both commands have P as their parent, because they are both simple commands. Similarly with
a=$(cmd)
However, if a pipelined command or a substituted command is not simple, then a subshell is required. For example, even though { ...} does not require a subshell, the syntax is not a simple command. So in
{ cmd1; } | cmd2
the first command is a child of a subshell, while the second command is a child of the main shell.
In particular, in
a=$(cmd1 | cmd2)
bash will not optimize away the command-substitution subshell, because cmd1 | cmd2 is not a simple command. So it will create a subshell to execute the pipeline; that subshell will apply the optimization, so there will not be additional subshells to execute the simple commands cmd1 and cmd2.
In short, you can pipeline the output of db2 call or you can capture the output in a variable, but you cannot capture the output of a pipeline in a variable.
Other shells are more (or less) capable of subshell optimizations. With zsh, for example, you can use process substitution to avoid the subshell:
# This will work with zsh but not with bash
var=$(db2 "call ..." > >(sed -rn ...))
The syntax cmd1 > >(cmd2) is very similar to the pipeline cmd1 | cmd2, but it differs in that is syntactically a simple command. For zsh, that is sufficient to allow the elimination of the subshell (but not for bash, which won't optimize away a subshell if the command involves a redirection).
As #rici so briliantly explained it all, I just wanna show it live:
With cmd | cmd you get:
$ db2 "call SOME_PROC(103,5,0,'','',0,0)" | cat
Return Status = 0
But with {cmd ;} | cmd you get:
$ { db2 "call SOME_PROC(103,5,0,'','',0,0)" ;} | cat
SQL1024N A database connection does not exist. SQLSTATE=08003
Related
I want to execute a long running command in Bash, and both capture its exit status, and tee its output.
So I do this:
command | tee out.txt
ST=$?
The problem is that the variable ST captures the exit status of tee and not of command. How can I solve this?
Note that command is long running and redirecting the output to a file to view it later is not a good solution for me.
There is an internal Bash variable called $PIPESTATUS; it’s an array that holds the exit status of each command in your last foreground pipeline of commands.
<command> | tee out.txt ; test ${PIPESTATUS[0]} -eq 0
Or another alternative which also works with other shells (like zsh) would be to enable pipefail:
set -o pipefail
...
The first option does not work with zsh due to a little bit different syntax.
Dumb solution: Connecting them through a named pipe (mkfifo). Then the command can be run second.
mkfifo pipe
tee out.txt < pipe &
command > pipe
echo $?
using bash's set -o pipefail is helpful
pipefail: the return value of a pipeline is the status of
the last command to exit with a non-zero status,
or zero if no command exited with a non-zero status
There's an array that gives you the exit status of each command in a pipe.
$ cat x| sed 's///'
cat: x: No such file or directory
$ echo $?
0
$ cat x| sed 's///'
cat: x: No such file or directory
$ echo ${PIPESTATUS[*]}
1 0
$ touch x
$ cat x| sed 's'
sed: 1: "s": substitute pattern can not be delimited by newline or backslash
$ echo ${PIPESTATUS[*]}
0 1
This solution works without using bash specific features or temporary files. Bonus: in the end the exit status is actually an exit status and not some string in a file.
Situation:
someprog | filter
you want the exit status from someprog and the output from filter.
Here is my solution:
((((someprog; echo $? >&3) | filter >&4) 3>&1) | (read xs; exit $xs)) 4>&1
echo $?
See my answer for the same question on unix.stackexchange.com for a detailed explanation and an alternative without subshells and some caveats.
By combining PIPESTATUS[0] and the result of executing the exit command in a subshell, you can directly access the return value of your initial command:
command | tee ; ( exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]} )
Here's an example:
# the "false" shell built-in command returns 1
false | tee ; ( exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]} )
echo "return value: $?"
will give you:
return value: 1
So I wanted to contribute an answer like lesmana's, but I think mine is perhaps a little simpler and slightly more advantageous pure-Bourne-shell solution:
# You want to pipe command1 through command2:
exec 4>&1
exitstatus=`{ { command1; printf $? 1>&3; } | command2 1>&4; } 3>&1`
# $exitstatus now has command1's exit status.
I think this is best explained from the inside out - command1 will execute and print its regular output on stdout (file descriptor 1), then once it's done, printf will execute and print icommand1's exit code on its stdout, but that stdout is redirected to file descriptor 3.
While command1 is running, its stdout is being piped to command2 (printf's output never makes it to command2 because we send it to file descriptor 3 instead of 1, which is what the pipe reads). Then we redirect command2's output to file descriptor 4, so that it also stays out of file descriptor 1 - because we want file descriptor 1 free for a little bit later, because we will bring the printf output on file descriptor 3 back down into file descriptor 1 - because that's what the command substitution (the backticks), will capture and that's what will get placed into the variable.
The final bit of magic is that first exec 4>&1 we did as a separate command - it opens file descriptor 4 as a copy of the external shell's stdout. Command substitution will capture whatever is written on standard out from the perspective of the commands inside it - but since command2's output is going to file descriptor 4 as far as the command substitution is concerned, the command substitution doesn't capture it - however once it gets "out" of the command substitution it is effectively still going to the script's overall file descriptor 1.
(The exec 4>&1 has to be a separate command because many common shells don't like it when you try to write to a file descriptor inside a command substitution, that is opened in the "external" command that is using the substitution. So this is the simplest portable way to do it.)
You can look at it in a less technical and more playful way, as if the outputs of the commands are leapfrogging each other: command1 pipes to command2, then the printf's output jumps over command 2 so that command2 doesn't catch it, and then command 2's output jumps over and out of the command substitution just as printf lands just in time to get captured by the substitution so that it ends up in the variable, and command2's output goes on its merry way being written to the standard output, just as in a normal pipe.
Also, as I understand it, $? will still contain the return code of the second command in the pipe, because variable assignments, command substitutions, and compound commands are all effectively transparent to the return code of the command inside them, so the return status of command2 should get propagated out - this, and not having to define an additional function, is why I think this might be a somewhat better solution than the one proposed by lesmana.
Per the caveats lesmana mentions, it's possible that command1 will at some point end up using file descriptors 3 or 4, so to be more robust, you would do:
exec 4>&1
exitstatus=`{ { command1 3>&-; printf $? 1>&3; } 4>&- | command2 1>&4; } 3>&1`
exec 4>&-
Note that I use compound commands in my example, but subshells (using ( ) instead of { } will also work, though may perhaps be less efficient.)
Commands inherit file descriptors from the process that launches them, so the entire second line will inherit file descriptor four, and the compound command followed by 3>&1 will inherit the file descriptor three. So the 4>&- makes sure that the inner compound command will not inherit file descriptor four, and the 3>&- will not inherit file descriptor three, so command1 gets a 'cleaner', more standard environment. You could also move the inner 4>&- next to the 3>&-, but I figure why not just limit its scope as much as possible.
I'm not sure how often things use file descriptor three and four directly - I think most of the time programs use syscalls that return not-used-at-the-moment file descriptors, but sometimes code writes to file descriptor 3 directly, I guess (I could imagine a program checking a file descriptor to see if it's open, and using it if it is, or behaving differently accordingly if it's not). So the latter is probably best to keep in mind and use for general-purpose cases.
(command | tee out.txt; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]})
Unlike #cODAR's answer this returns the original exit code of the first command and not only 0 for success and 127 for failure. But as #Chaoran pointed out you can just call ${PIPESTATUS[0]}. It is important however that all is put into brackets.
In Ubuntu and Debian, you can apt-get install moreutils. This contains a utility called mispipe that returns the exit status of the first command in the pipe.
Outside of bash, you can do:
bash -o pipefail -c "command1 | tee output"
This is useful for example in ninja scripts where the shell is expected to be /bin/sh.
The simplest way to do this in plain bash is to use process substitution instead of a pipeline. There are several differences, but they probably don't matter very much for your use case:
When running a pipeline, bash waits until all processes complete.
Sending Ctrl-C to bash makes it kill all the processes of a pipeline, not just the main one.
The pipefail option and the PIPESTATUS variable are irrelevant to process substitution.
Possibly more
With process substitution, bash just starts the process and forgets about it, it's not even visible in jobs.
Mentioned differences aside, consumer < <(producer) and producer | consumer are essentially equivalent.
If you want to flip which one is the "main" process, you just flip the commands and the direction of the substitution to producer > >(consumer). In your case:
command > >(tee out.txt)
Example:
$ { echo "hello world"; false; } > >(tee out.txt)
hello world
$ echo $?
1
$ cat out.txt
hello world
$ echo "hello world" > >(tee out.txt)
hello world
$ echo $?
0
$ cat out.txt
hello world
As I said, there are differences from the pipe expression. The process may never stop running, unless it is sensitive to the pipe closing. In particular, it may keep writing things to your stdout, which may be confusing.
PIPESTATUS[#] must be copied to an array immediately after the pipe command returns.
Any reads of PIPESTATUS[#] will erase the contents.
Copy it to another array if you plan on checking the status of all pipe commands.
"$?" is the same value as the last element of "${PIPESTATUS[#]}",
and reading it seems to destroy "${PIPESTATUS[#]}", but I haven't absolutely verified this.
declare -a PSA
cmd1 | cmd2 | cmd3
PSA=( "${PIPESTATUS[#]}" )
This will not work if the pipe is in a sub-shell. For a solution to that problem,
see bash pipestatus in backticked command?
Base on #brian-s-wilson 's answer; this bash helper function:
pipestatus() {
local S=("${PIPESTATUS[#]}")
if test -n "$*"
then test "$*" = "${S[*]}"
else ! [[ "${S[#]}" =~ [^0\ ] ]]
fi
}
used thus:
1: get_bad_things must succeed, but it should produce no output; but we want to see output that it does produce
get_bad_things | grep '^'
pipeinfo 0 1 || return
2: all pipeline must succeed
thing | something -q | thingy
pipeinfo || return
Pure shell solution:
% rm -f error.flag; echo hello world \
| (cat || echo "First command failed: $?" >> error.flag) \
| (cat || echo "Second command failed: $?" >> error.flag) \
| (cat || echo "Third command failed: $?" >> error.flag) \
; test -s error.flag && (echo Some command failed: ; cat error.flag)
hello world
And now with the second cat replaced by false:
% rm -f error.flag; echo hello world \
| (cat || echo "First command failed: $?" >> error.flag) \
| (false || echo "Second command failed: $?" >> error.flag) \
| (cat || echo "Third command failed: $?" >> error.flag) \
; test -s error.flag && (echo Some command failed: ; cat error.flag)
Some command failed:
Second command failed: 1
First command failed: 141
Please note the first cat fails as well, because it's stdout gets closed on it. The order of the failed commands in the log is correct in this example, but don't rely on it.
This method allows for capturing stdout and stderr for the individual commands so you can then dump that as well into a log file if an error occurs, or just delete it if no error (like the output of dd).
It may sometimes be simpler and clearer to use an external command, rather than digging into the details of bash. pipeline, from the minimal process scripting language execline, exits with the return code of the second command*, just like a sh pipeline does, but unlike sh, it allows reversing the direction of the pipe, so that we can capture the return code of the producer process (the below is all on the sh command line, but with execline installed):
$ # using the full execline grammar with the execlineb parser:
$ execlineb -c 'pipeline { echo "hello world" } tee out.txt'
hello world
$ cat out.txt
hello world
$ # for these simple examples, one can forego the parser and just use "" as a separator
$ # traditional order
$ pipeline echo "hello world" "" tee out.txt
hello world
$ # "write" order (second command writes rather than reads)
$ pipeline -w tee out.txt "" echo "hello world"
hello world
$ # pipeline execs into the second command, so that's the RC we get
$ pipeline -w tee out.txt "" false; echo $?
1
$ pipeline -w tee out.txt "" true; echo $?
0
$ # output and exit status
$ pipeline -w tee out.txt "" sh -c "echo 'hello world'; exit 42"; echo "RC: $?"
hello world
RC: 42
$ cat out.txt
hello world
Using pipeline has the same differences to native bash pipelines as the bash process substitution used in answer #43972501.
* Actually pipeline doesn't exit at all unless there is an error. It executes into the second command, so it's the second command that does the returning.
Why not use stderr? Like so:
(
# Our long-running process that exits abnormally
( for i in {1..100} ; do echo ploop ; sleep 0.5 ; done ; exit 5 )
echo $? 1>&2 # We pass the exit status of our long-running process to stderr (fd 2).
) | tee ploop.out
So ploop.out receives the stdout. stderr receives the exit status of the long running process. This has the benefit of being completely POSIX-compatible.
(Well, with the exception of the range expression in the example long-running process, but that's not really relevant.)
Here's what this looks like:
...
ploop
ploop
ploop
ploop
ploop
ploop
ploop
ploop
ploop
ploop
5
Note that the return code 5 does not get output to the file ploop.out.
Take the following example:
ls -l | grep -i readme | ./myscript.sh
What I am trying to do is get ls -l | grep -i readme as a string variable in myscript.sh. So essentially I am trying to get the whole command before the last pipe to use inside myscript.sh.
Is this possible?
No, it's not possible.
At the OS level, pipelines are implemented with the mkfifo(), dup2(), fork() and execve() syscalls. This doesn't provide a way to tell a program what the commands connected to its stdin are. Indeed, there's not guaranteed to be a string representing a pipeline of programs being used to generate stdin at all, even if your stdin really is a FIFO connected to another program's stdout; it could be that that pipeline was generated by programs calling execve() and friends directly.
The best available workaround is to invert your process flow.
It's not what you asked for, but it's what you can get.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
printf -v cmd_str '%q ' "$#" # generate a shell command representing our arguments
while IFS= read -r line; do
printf 'Output from %s: %s\n' "$cmd_str" "$line"
done < <("$#") # actually run those arguments as a command, and read from it
...and then have your script start the things it reads input from, rather than receiving them on stdin.
...thereafter, ./yourscript ls -l, or ./yourscript sh -c 'ls -l | grep -i readme'. (Of course, never use this except as an example; see ParsingLs).
It can't be done generally, but using the history command in bash it can maybe sort of be done, provided certain conditions are met:
history has to be turned on.
Only one shell has been running, or accepting new commands, (or failing that, running myscript.sh), since the start of myscript.sh.
Since command lines with leading spaces are, by default, not saved to the history, the invoking command for myscript.sh must have no leading spaces; or that default must be changed -- see Get bash history to remember only the commands run with space prefixed.
The invoking command needs to end with a &, because without it the new command line wouldn't be added to the history until after myscript.sh was completed.
The script needs to be a bash script, (it won't work with /bin/dash), and the calling shell needs a little prep work. Sometime before the script is run first do:
shopt -s histappend
PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a; history -n"
...this makes the bash history heritable. (Code swiped from unutbu's answer to a related question.)
Then myscript.sh might go:
#!/bin/bash
history -w
printf 'calling command was: %s\n' \
"$(history | rev |
grep "$0" ~/.bash_history | tail -1)"
Test run:
echo googa | ./myscript.sh &
Output, (minus the "&" associated cruft):
calling command was: echo googa | ./myscript.sh &
The cruft can be halved by changing "&" to "& fg", but the resulting output won't include the "fg" suffix.
I think you should pass it as one string parameter like this
./myscript.sh "$(ls -l | grep -i readme)"
I think that it is possible, have a look at this example:
#!/bin/bash
result=""
while read line; do
result=$result"${line}"
done
echo $result
Now run this script using a pipe, for example:
ls -l /etc | ./script.sh
I hope that will be helpful for you :)
I want to execute a long running command in Bash, and both capture its exit status, and tee its output.
So I do this:
command | tee out.txt
ST=$?
The problem is that the variable ST captures the exit status of tee and not of command. How can I solve this?
Note that command is long running and redirecting the output to a file to view it later is not a good solution for me.
There is an internal Bash variable called $PIPESTATUS; it’s an array that holds the exit status of each command in your last foreground pipeline of commands.
<command> | tee out.txt ; test ${PIPESTATUS[0]} -eq 0
Or another alternative which also works with other shells (like zsh) would be to enable pipefail:
set -o pipefail
...
The first option does not work with zsh due to a little bit different syntax.
Dumb solution: Connecting them through a named pipe (mkfifo). Then the command can be run second.
mkfifo pipe
tee out.txt < pipe &
command > pipe
echo $?
using bash's set -o pipefail is helpful
pipefail: the return value of a pipeline is the status of
the last command to exit with a non-zero status,
or zero if no command exited with a non-zero status
There's an array that gives you the exit status of each command in a pipe.
$ cat x| sed 's///'
cat: x: No such file or directory
$ echo $?
0
$ cat x| sed 's///'
cat: x: No such file or directory
$ echo ${PIPESTATUS[*]}
1 0
$ touch x
$ cat x| sed 's'
sed: 1: "s": substitute pattern can not be delimited by newline or backslash
$ echo ${PIPESTATUS[*]}
0 1
This solution works without using bash specific features or temporary files. Bonus: in the end the exit status is actually an exit status and not some string in a file.
Situation:
someprog | filter
you want the exit status from someprog and the output from filter.
Here is my solution:
((((someprog; echo $? >&3) | filter >&4) 3>&1) | (read xs; exit $xs)) 4>&1
echo $?
See my answer for the same question on unix.stackexchange.com for a detailed explanation and an alternative without subshells and some caveats.
By combining PIPESTATUS[0] and the result of executing the exit command in a subshell, you can directly access the return value of your initial command:
command | tee ; ( exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]} )
Here's an example:
# the "false" shell built-in command returns 1
false | tee ; ( exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]} )
echo "return value: $?"
will give you:
return value: 1
So I wanted to contribute an answer like lesmana's, but I think mine is perhaps a little simpler and slightly more advantageous pure-Bourne-shell solution:
# You want to pipe command1 through command2:
exec 4>&1
exitstatus=`{ { command1; printf $? 1>&3; } | command2 1>&4; } 3>&1`
# $exitstatus now has command1's exit status.
I think this is best explained from the inside out - command1 will execute and print its regular output on stdout (file descriptor 1), then once it's done, printf will execute and print icommand1's exit code on its stdout, but that stdout is redirected to file descriptor 3.
While command1 is running, its stdout is being piped to command2 (printf's output never makes it to command2 because we send it to file descriptor 3 instead of 1, which is what the pipe reads). Then we redirect command2's output to file descriptor 4, so that it also stays out of file descriptor 1 - because we want file descriptor 1 free for a little bit later, because we will bring the printf output on file descriptor 3 back down into file descriptor 1 - because that's what the command substitution (the backticks), will capture and that's what will get placed into the variable.
The final bit of magic is that first exec 4>&1 we did as a separate command - it opens file descriptor 4 as a copy of the external shell's stdout. Command substitution will capture whatever is written on standard out from the perspective of the commands inside it - but since command2's output is going to file descriptor 4 as far as the command substitution is concerned, the command substitution doesn't capture it - however once it gets "out" of the command substitution it is effectively still going to the script's overall file descriptor 1.
(The exec 4>&1 has to be a separate command because many common shells don't like it when you try to write to a file descriptor inside a command substitution, that is opened in the "external" command that is using the substitution. So this is the simplest portable way to do it.)
You can look at it in a less technical and more playful way, as if the outputs of the commands are leapfrogging each other: command1 pipes to command2, then the printf's output jumps over command 2 so that command2 doesn't catch it, and then command 2's output jumps over and out of the command substitution just as printf lands just in time to get captured by the substitution so that it ends up in the variable, and command2's output goes on its merry way being written to the standard output, just as in a normal pipe.
Also, as I understand it, $? will still contain the return code of the second command in the pipe, because variable assignments, command substitutions, and compound commands are all effectively transparent to the return code of the command inside them, so the return status of command2 should get propagated out - this, and not having to define an additional function, is why I think this might be a somewhat better solution than the one proposed by lesmana.
Per the caveats lesmana mentions, it's possible that command1 will at some point end up using file descriptors 3 or 4, so to be more robust, you would do:
exec 4>&1
exitstatus=`{ { command1 3>&-; printf $? 1>&3; } 4>&- | command2 1>&4; } 3>&1`
exec 4>&-
Note that I use compound commands in my example, but subshells (using ( ) instead of { } will also work, though may perhaps be less efficient.)
Commands inherit file descriptors from the process that launches them, so the entire second line will inherit file descriptor four, and the compound command followed by 3>&1 will inherit the file descriptor three. So the 4>&- makes sure that the inner compound command will not inherit file descriptor four, and the 3>&- will not inherit file descriptor three, so command1 gets a 'cleaner', more standard environment. You could also move the inner 4>&- next to the 3>&-, but I figure why not just limit its scope as much as possible.
I'm not sure how often things use file descriptor three and four directly - I think most of the time programs use syscalls that return not-used-at-the-moment file descriptors, but sometimes code writes to file descriptor 3 directly, I guess (I could imagine a program checking a file descriptor to see if it's open, and using it if it is, or behaving differently accordingly if it's not). So the latter is probably best to keep in mind and use for general-purpose cases.
(command | tee out.txt; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]})
Unlike #cODAR's answer this returns the original exit code of the first command and not only 0 for success and 127 for failure. But as #Chaoran pointed out you can just call ${PIPESTATUS[0]}. It is important however that all is put into brackets.
In Ubuntu and Debian, you can apt-get install moreutils. This contains a utility called mispipe that returns the exit status of the first command in the pipe.
Outside of bash, you can do:
bash -o pipefail -c "command1 | tee output"
This is useful for example in ninja scripts where the shell is expected to be /bin/sh.
The simplest way to do this in plain bash is to use process substitution instead of a pipeline. There are several differences, but they probably don't matter very much for your use case:
When running a pipeline, bash waits until all processes complete.
Sending Ctrl-C to bash makes it kill all the processes of a pipeline, not just the main one.
The pipefail option and the PIPESTATUS variable are irrelevant to process substitution.
Possibly more
With process substitution, bash just starts the process and forgets about it, it's not even visible in jobs.
Mentioned differences aside, consumer < <(producer) and producer | consumer are essentially equivalent.
If you want to flip which one is the "main" process, you just flip the commands and the direction of the substitution to producer > >(consumer). In your case:
command > >(tee out.txt)
Example:
$ { echo "hello world"; false; } > >(tee out.txt)
hello world
$ echo $?
1
$ cat out.txt
hello world
$ echo "hello world" > >(tee out.txt)
hello world
$ echo $?
0
$ cat out.txt
hello world
As I said, there are differences from the pipe expression. The process may never stop running, unless it is sensitive to the pipe closing. In particular, it may keep writing things to your stdout, which may be confusing.
PIPESTATUS[#] must be copied to an array immediately after the pipe command returns.
Any reads of PIPESTATUS[#] will erase the contents.
Copy it to another array if you plan on checking the status of all pipe commands.
"$?" is the same value as the last element of "${PIPESTATUS[#]}",
and reading it seems to destroy "${PIPESTATUS[#]}", but I haven't absolutely verified this.
declare -a PSA
cmd1 | cmd2 | cmd3
PSA=( "${PIPESTATUS[#]}" )
This will not work if the pipe is in a sub-shell. For a solution to that problem,
see bash pipestatus in backticked command?
Base on #brian-s-wilson 's answer; this bash helper function:
pipestatus() {
local S=("${PIPESTATUS[#]}")
if test -n "$*"
then test "$*" = "${S[*]}"
else ! [[ "${S[#]}" =~ [^0\ ] ]]
fi
}
used thus:
1: get_bad_things must succeed, but it should produce no output; but we want to see output that it does produce
get_bad_things | grep '^'
pipeinfo 0 1 || return
2: all pipeline must succeed
thing | something -q | thingy
pipeinfo || return
Pure shell solution:
% rm -f error.flag; echo hello world \
| (cat || echo "First command failed: $?" >> error.flag) \
| (cat || echo "Second command failed: $?" >> error.flag) \
| (cat || echo "Third command failed: $?" >> error.flag) \
; test -s error.flag && (echo Some command failed: ; cat error.flag)
hello world
And now with the second cat replaced by false:
% rm -f error.flag; echo hello world \
| (cat || echo "First command failed: $?" >> error.flag) \
| (false || echo "Second command failed: $?" >> error.flag) \
| (cat || echo "Third command failed: $?" >> error.flag) \
; test -s error.flag && (echo Some command failed: ; cat error.flag)
Some command failed:
Second command failed: 1
First command failed: 141
Please note the first cat fails as well, because it's stdout gets closed on it. The order of the failed commands in the log is correct in this example, but don't rely on it.
This method allows for capturing stdout and stderr for the individual commands so you can then dump that as well into a log file if an error occurs, or just delete it if no error (like the output of dd).
It may sometimes be simpler and clearer to use an external command, rather than digging into the details of bash. pipeline, from the minimal process scripting language execline, exits with the return code of the second command*, just like a sh pipeline does, but unlike sh, it allows reversing the direction of the pipe, so that we can capture the return code of the producer process (the below is all on the sh command line, but with execline installed):
$ # using the full execline grammar with the execlineb parser:
$ execlineb -c 'pipeline { echo "hello world" } tee out.txt'
hello world
$ cat out.txt
hello world
$ # for these simple examples, one can forego the parser and just use "" as a separator
$ # traditional order
$ pipeline echo "hello world" "" tee out.txt
hello world
$ # "write" order (second command writes rather than reads)
$ pipeline -w tee out.txt "" echo "hello world"
hello world
$ # pipeline execs into the second command, so that's the RC we get
$ pipeline -w tee out.txt "" false; echo $?
1
$ pipeline -w tee out.txt "" true; echo $?
0
$ # output and exit status
$ pipeline -w tee out.txt "" sh -c "echo 'hello world'; exit 42"; echo "RC: $?"
hello world
RC: 42
$ cat out.txt
hello world
Using pipeline has the same differences to native bash pipelines as the bash process substitution used in answer #43972501.
* Actually pipeline doesn't exit at all unless there is an error. It executes into the second command, so it's the second command that does the returning.
Why not use stderr? Like so:
(
# Our long-running process that exits abnormally
( for i in {1..100} ; do echo ploop ; sleep 0.5 ; done ; exit 5 )
echo $? 1>&2 # We pass the exit status of our long-running process to stderr (fd 2).
) | tee ploop.out
So ploop.out receives the stdout. stderr receives the exit status of the long running process. This has the benefit of being completely POSIX-compatible.
(Well, with the exception of the range expression in the example long-running process, but that's not really relevant.)
Here's what this looks like:
...
ploop
ploop
ploop
ploop
ploop
ploop
ploop
ploop
ploop
ploop
5
Note that the return code 5 does not get output to the file ploop.out.
I have a ksh93 script (but the question is not ksh related).
Currently, I run my script with something like :
./script 2>&1 | tee logfile
I'm wondering what should I had in my script to get exactly the same result (screen output and a logfile containing both STDOUT and STDERR output).
Of course, I want to avoid adding '| tee logfile' for each echo/print I do.
Of course, a way to do that could be to wrap my script in another one that simply run './script 2>&1 | tee logfile' but I was wondering if this could be done inside the script itself.
If the current contents of your script is:
command1 arg1
command2 arg2
You can wrap that lot (inside the script) like this:
{
command1 arg1
command2 arg2
} 2>&1 | tee logfile
The { to } code is now a unit of I/O redirection within the script; the I/O redirection at the end applies to all the enclosed commands. It does not create a subshell; any variables set in the commands are available to the script after the I/O redirection.
The { and } are slightly peculiar syntactically; in particular, } must be preceded by a semicolon or newline.
One common technique that is somewhat fragile is:
#!/bin/sh
test -z "$NOEXEC" && { NOEXEC=1 exec "$0" "$#" 2>&1 | tee logfile; exit; }
...
This will discard the return value and exit with the value returned by tee. This may or may not be an issue, and may be the desired behavior.
Just place your code in a function and call it.
your_func(){
#your code
}
your_func $# 2>&1 | tee logfile
Please explain this problem with incrementing value, we have next file named test.sh
#!/bin/bash
ps aux | grep test.sh -c
echo $(ps aux | grep test.sh -c)
and then run it
$ ./test.sh
2
3
I know there is two lines after grep slice (1 with test.sh, 2 with grep), why 3 come in? Thanks
You get 3 in the second case because the second command $(...) (i.e. command substitution) executes in a subshell.
From the manual:
Command substitution, commands grouped with parentheses, and
asynchronous commands are invoked in a subshell environment that is a
duplicate of the shell environment, ...