Dear Bill, What would screen do for you that opening a new terminal window (alt-Fn) wouldn't do? I know you're an expert, so I just want to know what I'm missing.
Yours, Chris On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, Bill Kendrick wrote: > > So I'm grepping & cut'ing a huge log file (6.4 million lines) > and made the mistake of deciding to pipe it through "tee" to > watch for a while. I forgot to do this from within a "screen" > session, so I'm kind of stuck staring at it in a terminal. *sigh* :) > > I don't want to watch any more, and wish I could do something like, > I dunno maybe like this...? > > > $ cat hugefile.log | grep whatever | cut -f 1,2,3 | tee output.txt > {huge dump of data} > ^Z > [1]+ Stopped cat hugefile.log | grep whatever | cut -f 1,2,3 | tee > output.txt > $ kill -SIGUSR1 %1 > > And then resume: > > $ fg > {wonderful silence} > > > or background: > > $ bg > [1]+ cat hugefile.log | grep whatever | cut -f 1,2,3 | tee output.txt & > $ > > > In other words, a way to tell tee to "shut up" and stop dumping to stdout > any more (but keep copying from stdin to the file specified). > > > I wonder, is there any other Linux'y trick I can use in the meantime? > (Maybe fiddling in /proc ? ;) ) > > > -- > -bill! > Sent from my computer > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech