I think this is what you need: pfmon | awk > outfile (if awk doesn't automatically dump to a specific file) | is pipe, > is output redirection to a file. >> will append output to a file, not overwrite. Hope this helps. > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of > Sreekumar Kodakara > Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 10:52 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: [TCLUG] Redirecting output of a command to pipe > > > Hi, > > I have a command (pfmon in IA64 system) which takes filename > as a parameter. It samples the counters present in the > processor at a given sampling rate and stores it into the > file. This command stores lot more data than what I want. > Since it stores it in column format, I can write a small awk > script to parse the file to get the data which I want. The > problem is that the raw file which I get from pfmon is just > too big ( about 100 GB or so) and hence I run out of disk > space before I can process it with my awk script. > > My question is there a special file in linux ( The system > is RH with kernel version linux-2.4.18-e.25, I dont know the > RH version number), which I can specify in the command line > of pfmon and which I can read simultaneously with a pipe or > something so that I can process the data as and when it generates? > > > Thanks for the help. > > Sreekumar > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list