On Wed 09 Jan 2019 at 16:13:19 (+0000), mick crane wrote: > On 2019-01-09 14:14, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 09 Jan 2019 at 13:54:45 (+0000), Curt wrote: > > > On 2019-01-09, rhkra...@gmail.com <rhkra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, January 09, 2019 03:01:42 AM Richard Hector wrote: > > > >> On 9/01/19 6:04 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > >> > lsblk -l -o name,label | sort | script > > > >> > > > >> lsblk -ln -o name,label |sort | <script> > > > > > > > > I'm not the OP, but I very much like the way you put script in angle > > > > brackets > > > > to show that is a parameter (mcow) and not a literal value!! > > > > > > I'll see that affection for mundane angle brackets and raise you the > > > annoyance of not having received the vaguest clue as to what might be > > > found literally inside them (the pertinent part, at the very least). > > > > I don't think the OP told us what the script was, but just that they > > want to pipe the output into "a script". Using angle brackets from the > > start (or knowing that script itself is a program) would have avoided > > the mess in the other subthread. > > /usr/bin/script looks like it might be handy sometime ( didn't know > about that ) > there's a line in the answers to clean up the output. > https://superuser.com/questions/236930/how-to-clean-up-output-of-linux-script-command
That perl script is useful, so it might be worth posting here: perl -pe 's/\e([^\[\]]|\[.*?[a-zA-Z]|\].*?\a)//g' < typescript | col -b | less I just ran a typescript of an expert Debian installation over ssh, and I think that's the best representation of curses screens I've seen, short of using cut and paste. But returning to lsblk, I can't figure out why the OP's lsblk -l appears in such an odd order. Does it differ from that given by lsblk with no arguments? I've checked the unsorted order of my /sys/dev/block, which is essentially random, as is the order of block devices in the output of mount, yet lsblk gives me a nice sorted lists: $ lsblk -o name NAME sda ├─sda1 ├─sda2 ├─sda3 ├─sda4 ├─sda5 ├─sda6 ├─sda7 ├─sda8 │ └─swanhome ├─sda9 ├─sda10 ├─sda11 ├─sda12 ├─sda13 └─sda14 sdb └─sdb1 └─luks-b1b5d363-c048-40e6-8030-fed7a20e37ab sdc └─sdc1 $ lsblk -o name -l NAME sda sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 sda10 sda11 sda12 sda13 sda14 sdb sdb1 sdc sdc1 swanhome luks-b1b5d363-c048-40e6-8030-fed7a20e37ab $ The disadvantage (to me) with external sorting is that the order becomes alphanumeric instead of numerical (though a script could work around that by splitting the name field). Cheers, David.
