pipe to txt file?

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I'm trying to monitor a linux server from command line. I know i can monitor processes, uptime and cpu usage with commands such as pstree and uptime etc. But can i pipe these to a txt file to download and view on a windows box later? Can anyone tell me how to do this? Also can i do this remotley using Putty? I dont have physical access to the server.

Also could i use a Cron command to schedule this for each day so all i need do is login and copy the txt file to my pc?

 

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command > test.txt

And use WinSCP to download it

 

Please bear in mind, that a redirect of ">" will overwrite an existing file of the same name if one exists.

If you want to setup a cron entry to monitor the system every 5 minutes you might be better off using something like:

$ command >> monitoring_`date +%Y%m%d`

All of the day's monitoring would end up in a single file called: monitoring_YYYYMMDD (where YYYY = Year e.g. 2010, MM = Month e.g. 10 for October, and DD = day e.g. 23) - and the file would be appended to each time the command ran, until the date changes, and a new file will be created.

 

you could also mount a windows share to copy the text file to to save you login on everyday

ie.

mount -t smbfs //servername/sharename /mountdirectory -o username=mywindowsusername,password=mywindowspassword


EDIT - Nice of me to resurrect this post, didnt notice the date!

 

lol, did look at the date and was like