Hi,
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Godfrey <
address@hidden> wrote:
> I dont seem to have any success at capturing the output form after gnokii after send sms
Check the return code and not the output.
> address@hidden ~ # echo "This is a test message" | gnokii --sendsms +27mycellnumber --report > /var/lock/smscounter/count.txt
> GNOKII Version 0.6.31
> Send succeeded with reference 168!
> address@hidden ~ # echo "This is a test message" | gnokii --sendsms +27mycellnumber
> GNOKII Version 0.6.31
> Send succeeded with reference 169!
> address@hidden ~ # echo "This is a test message" | gnokii --sendsms +27mycellnumber >> /var/lock/smscounter/count.txt
> GNOKII Version 0.6.31
> Send succeeded with reference 170!
>
> > or >> does not capture any out put
>
> as you can see here
>
> address@hidden ~ # touch /var/lock/smscounter/count.txt
> address@hidden ~ # cat /var/lock/smscounter/count.txt
> address@hidden ~ # cat /var/lock/smscounter/count.txt
> address@hidden ~ #
Yes, because all output is to stderr and not stdout.
> My question has a bash script been written to keep tabs on the number of sms's sent, if not is there any way of keeping a record of the number of sms's sent, or if that is not possible is there any way of capturing the output specifically this part
Just check for the return code. It it is equal to 0 increase your counter (somehow). It it is not 0, the SMS has not been sent (and you may log it some other way).
take care,
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Pawel Kot