Thanks - that was exactly what I was looking for. Now I just need to find a good scripting tutorial. :)
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Marsh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 8:38 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: scripting question On 9/21/07, Michael Martinell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a simple script that counts up the number of spam messages each day > and prints the total number into a text field. This is fine as far as it > goes, however I would like to also include the date and the number of > non-spam messages. > > I can get this to run, however each piece of information is printed on it's > own line. I would like to have all of the results append in my text file on > the same line so that I can easily import it into a spreadsheet or database. > > How would I go about doing this? > > My script is as follows: ... > date && echo " Spam Count" && /bin/more /var/log/syslog | /bin/grep -c > 'identified spam' && echo " " && echo "Clean Message Count " && /bin/more > /var/log/syslog | /bin/grep -c 'clean message' You can concatenate things in a single echo simply by passing multiple arguments. Slinging a few backticks, and you can do something like: echo `date` " dollar signs: " `grep -c \$ ~/.bashrc` " comments: " `grep -c \# ~/.bashrc` Put the file name in a variable, and it should be even simpler. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com http://36pints.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
