Let's say I have two scripts, one calls the other, how can I prepend text to each echo to visually indicate the echo comes from the called command?
a.sh
#!/usr/bin/env sh
echo - BEGIN
./b.sh # Append "-" to each echo?
echo - END
b.sh
#!/usr/bin/env sh
echo - BEGIN
echo - END
Output I want:
- BEGIN
-- BEGIN
-- END
- END
I can't touch b.sh and I need to stream the output.
If it's just text output by the echo command that you want prepended with a -, you could redefine echo as a function and source the other script with the . special builtin so it inherits that function:
#!/usr/bin/env sh
printf '%s\n' '- BEGIN'
echo() {
printf %s -
command echo "$@"
}
. ./b.sh
printf '%s\n' '- END'
(note that in any case echo is best avoided)
If you mean you want to add this to all output printed by the second script, just pipe its output to sed. In your example, make a.sh like this:
#!/usr/bin/env sh
echo - BEGIN
./b.sh | sed 's/^/-/'
echo - END
This results in:
$ a.sh
- BEGIN
-- BEGIN
-- END
- END
