Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 10:18:32PM +0100, Leo wrote:
>
> I have a thought... is this program normally run interactively? If
> so, does it present a countdown of remaining time or bytes? If so,
> it's quite likely that it's using CR, reverse tabs, or other control
> characters to overwrite the previous line. If it's doing that, you'll
> probably find that grep isn't handling the output right.
>
> You could try something like this:
>
> program | tr [[:cntrl:]] \\n | grep -E -v remaining[[:space:]]*$
>
> Hugo.
>
Worked brilliantly! thank you :)
Still don't understand why anacron requires my script to have it though,
when the script works fine when called directly from the command line.
Leo
