Originally posted by: ddjen11

Hi,

AIX 5.3 script command does not support the  "-c" , is there a way to bypass the interactive shell so it can be used in a shell script?

Thanks

David

Originally posted by: GarlandJoseph

I guess you're talking about running -C <command>.  Can't you just reassign standard out and standard error  to achieve what you want?  Please give an example of what you want to run if there was such a -C switch in the aix 5.3's version of script.  i.e nohup <command> 2>stderr.out 1> stdout.err

Originally posted by: ddjen11

i am trying to capture the output of the sftp command, specifically this progress display:

file_being_ftped                            100%  987    1.2KB/s 00:03

This display is not saved by normal output redirect.

I've found this command thru searching that will save everything that goes on screen (including prompt) to a file:

script -q -c "sftp -b ... user@host" scr_out

Problem is aix 5.3 does not support '-c' option, and when i try input redirect, pipe, or HERE doc, it just says:

tcgetattr: A specified file does not support the ioctl system call.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Originally posted by: GarlandJoseph

Ok, I see, in this case sftp wants to write to a /dev/tty and so it' can't be redirected. I think the screen utility would work in this case if you have access to it.

Originally posted by: ddjen11

Thanks, unfortunately we dont have screen.

i could manually run script with sftp & get the output (plus progress info)  that i  needed. Only thing is i need to automate the process. If it would just support "-c"...

Originally posted by: BenGrossman

try this...

(sftp -b ... user@host) >scr_out 2>&1

THe parenthesis should help with tty output, this works well with the time and times commands when you want to capture the "Real" time etc.

Originally posted by: ddjen11

thanks for the suggestion, it's still not getting the progressive bar/display, ie., not showing % of completion in succession.