Hugo Mills wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 10:18:32PM +0100, Leo wrote: > > I have a thought... is this program normally run interactively? If > so, does it present a countdown of remaining time or bytes? If so, > it's quite likely that it's using CR, reverse tabs, or other control > characters to overwrite the previous line. If it's doing that, you'll > probably find that grep isn't handling the output right. > > You could try something like this: > > program | tr [[:cntrl:]] \\n | grep -E -v remaining[[:space:]]*$ > > Hugo. >
Worked brilliantly! thank you :) Still don't understand why anacron requires my script to have it though, when the script works fine when called directly from the command line. Leo -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
