Question

I am using vim to make a simple script trying get the output of lm_sensors into another file. My problem is the formatting that needs to be done with requires combining two lines and outputting them into a file. Here is what I have currently:

LINE1=(echo -en System: INFO $(date +%x) $(date +%T) : CPU Temperature \{ ; sensors| grep Core\ sed 's/        /, /g'|tr -d '\n')
LINE2=(echo -e \})
echo $LINE1$LINE2 >> (FILE PATH)

LINE2’s sole purpose is to put a } bracket at the end of the data, so if there is a better way to do that all in one line I am all ears.

Disregarding the sed and tr commands which format the data, I would like the output data to look as follows, though I always get an ‘unexpected token ‘;” error message with the above script.

System: INFO (date time) : CPU Temperature { CPU Temp DATA }

I greatly appreciate all input.

Answer 1

Try this, perhaps:

LINE1=`echo -en System: INFO $(date +%x) $(date +%T) : CPU Temperature \{ ; sensors| grep Core\ sed 's/        /, /g'|tr -d '\n'`
echo "$LINE1\}" >> (FILE PATH)

Alternatively:

(echo -en System: INFO $(date +%x) $(date +%T) : CPU Temperature \{ ; sensors| grep Core\ sed 's/        /, /g'|tr -d '\n')|while read line; do
   echo "$LINE1\}" >> (FILE PATH)
done