Parse Terminal Text

[FijiDave]

I want to be able to get information from my servers.  I have a workflow setup that already runs ssh, runs a command and exits.

How do i capture the data to use it in a notification or such?  I have tried reading the help and looked at others scripts but dont see anything related to the terminal. 

Can anyone point me in the right direction?  The text will always have the same text at the beginning but different answer like diskspace or random url 

[deanishe]

Hi @FijiDave,  welcome to the forum.

 

2 hours ago, FijiDave said:

I have tried reading the help and looked at others scripts but dont see anything related to the terminal.

 

To be clear, what you're asking is not about the terminal, which is a GUI program in which users can run a shell (like Terminal.app or iTerm2.app). Alfred does have a Terminal Command action, but that's definitely not what you want if you're trying to capture the output.

 

This is actually very simple to do. Add a Run Script action to your workflow with Language = /bin/bash (or /bin/zsh), and then enter your ssh command in the Script box. That's it. The output of the command will be passed as input to the next workflow element (a Post Notification output or whatever).

 

So if you want to see the space remaining on /dev/sda of server.example.com, you would put the following in the Script box, just like you would type in your shell:

ssh server.example.com df -h | grep /dev/sda | awk '{print $4}'

[FijiDave]

Wow, I totally missed that.  Thank you very much now I have to correct some other scripts.