Redirecting stdout from XEV

3saul · 02-25-2006, 04:23 AM

As this application never returns (closes) I can't seem to get it to redirect it's output to a file

xev > /tmp/file.txt

does not work...try it. It will create the file, but with no text inside. Any other idea's much appreciated.

**Salem** · 02-25-2006, 05:12 AM

Works for me

Code:

$ xev > tmp.txt
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
$ ls -l tmp.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 ??? ??? 18125 Feb 25 11:10 tmp.txt

3saul · 02-27-2006, 11:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Salem

Works for me

Code:

$ xev > tmp.txt
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
$ ls -l tmp.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 ??? ??? 18125 Feb 25 11:10 tmp.txt

OK yes it's working for me too now. The reason I thought it wasn't working was because it took so long before it would write the data to the text file. Is there anyway to force it to write immediately to the piped file?

**Salem** · 02-28-2006, 02:22 AM

> Is there anyway to force it to write immediately to the piped file?
If you use fork()/exec()/dup()/open() etc to manually create the process and the pipe, you should be able to make the pipe unbuffered.

But are you attempting to read that file with another process at the same time?

02-25-2006, 04:23 AM	#1
3saul Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 62	Redirecting stdout from XEV As this application never returns (closes) I can't seem to get it to redirect it's output to a file xev > /tmp/file.txt does not work...try it. It will create the file, but with no text inside. Any other idea's much appreciated.
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02-25-2006, 05:12 AM	#2
Salem and the hat of Jobseeking Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: The edge of the known universe Posts: 21,665	Works for me Code: $ xev > tmp.txt X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). $ ls -l tmp.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 ??? ??? 18125 Feb 25 11:10 tmp.txt
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02-28-2006, 02:22 AM	#4
Salem and the hat of Jobseeking Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: The edge of the known universe Posts: 21,665	> Is there anyway to force it to write immediately to the piped file? If you use fork()/exec()/dup()/open() etc to manually create the process and the pipe, you should be able to make the pipe unbuffered. But are you attempting to read that file with another process at the same time?
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