need help doing a egrep and replace

Right now, I am using this line of code to get rid of data in a file called alarmNotification that I do not want:

but I am having some problem. An entry like the one below in the alarmNotification.log file is getting deleted when I only want a part of the entry to be deleted, keeping the rest of the line in tact

I want this entry to look like this after I correct the problem:

entries like these dont get effected at all by the egrep line:
Instead of an egrep, is there a global substitute or something that I could do.

thanks

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

I think u shuld change the regex for this.
As u use . also i thnk it is picking a wrong pattern.
Why cant u use like this
[a-z]a[z][a-z]\.[a-z]a-z]a-z]\. ==> for com.cboe



Raghu

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

So you mean have the regex like this:
is the syntax correct: the a[z] and the a-z]?

thanks

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

This is the problem actually:
This regex:
is looking for data between the two quotation marks:
When I hate data like this:
There are line break before each
and so there is no closing quote after this line:
I want my output to have everything, including the "at com.cboe..."
but because they are different lines, the egrep doesnt select them. What can I use that will egrep between multiple lines from the beginning to the end of the quotation marks.

This data below works below it searches between the quotation marks and this is all on one line:
thanks

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

Hi,
Is someone able to help me with this problem

thanks

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

Is there something that I can use to search in a file over more then 1 line.
I believe that egrep only works line by line but can i search between lines?

thanks

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

Hi,
Then i think you shuld wite your code using AWK.
I know AWK has this feature.

Raghu

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

Thanks gpraghuram,

Is there a code snippet you have that would help me

thanks

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

Hi,
I dont have a example code with me.
But check this link
and look for this "Multiline Records" in the page.

Raghu

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

I checked out the link and I understand what they are saying:
But how do I change RS so that it looks between two quotation marks:
and the awk command that does that.

thanks

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

I used this snippet of code
I wanted the lines to be separated by the word low like in these entries:
and I wanted it to print everything in the line:
from the file:
BUT i get these errors:
What am i doing wrong?

thanks

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

Instead of command line write a awk program which will be easy.
Raghu

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

I created an AWK file called grepLogDebug.awk which has this code:
and here is how I call the awk file:
and i get this error:

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

I changed some of the code:

To call the AWK file:
and in the AWK file:
but when i run it,
it get stuck and doesnt finish creating the tables

thanks

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

But where u are giving file name .
call like this
/infra/bin/gawk -f $workDir/grepLogDebug.awk dbDir=$dbDir < $IP_FILE

also you cant directly get the value of dbdir inside the AWK script and there is a special syntax to pass input arguments to the AWK.
Check in gawk manual

Raghu

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

is the $IP_FILE the name of the file that I am trying to print from:
so for me, the $IP_FILE should be: $dbDir/alarmNotification.log so should my call looks like this?
and then inside my grepLogDebug.awk file
is my print line correct because I am still getting errors:
thanks

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

printf is not ok.
printf in awk is similar to C syntax.

Raghu

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

I have changed the printf statement and now I get these errors when i try to create the tables:

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

Hi,
I think this discissuion is going on for a long time.
Why cant u post the code and the way u run your script and i can check it.

Raghu

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

Hello Raghu,
Here is the code that I am running:
getAndArchiveIcsDbTest
grepLogDebug.awk
here is a sample of the alarmNotification.log
I call the getAndArchiveIcsDbTest on the command line with a date as an argument..for example:
getAndArchiveIcsDbTest 2009-03-09

That is when i get the errors that I posted earlier.

If I uncomment out the egrep statement in the getAndArchiveIcsDbTest file and comment out the /infra/bin/gawk statement, it runs with no errors, but it does not print out the low debug statements that have multiple lines, from the alarmNotification.log file, which is what I am trying to fix.

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

I think problem is this line
Raghu

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

The code change got rid of the fatal error:
but I still get this exception error:
I do not get this error when I comment out the
/infra/bin/gawk statement and uncomment the egrep statement.

Thanks

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

Another error that I found is that this line:
creates the output of this, which is incorrect:
The line which I was using before:
creates this output which is correct except for the issue I am trying to fix:
thanks

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

In the awk you are only combinig the multiple lines and u are not processing anything?
Also u have the replace logic still in egrep?

Raghu

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

are you talking about processing the data in the grepLogDebug.awk file?

i tried the egrep statement in the grepLogDebug.awk file:
and I call the statement like this in the getAndArchiveIcsDbTest file:
but I get this error:
I am not sure where I am supposed to process anything and what I should do with the replace logic that is in the egrep. I though that my grepLogDebug.awk file would make it so that I would be searching over multiple lines and then the egrep:
would be able to get the info that I need and sed commands:
would do the replacing and work that I need done on the data that is captured from the grepLogDebug.awk file.

I am trying to figure out where I am going wrong because I have the logic correct for searching and replacing if all my data is within the same line. I didnt think that because the data is scattered over multiple lines, I would have this much trouble.

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

hi all.,


it's been a long time since i replied/post here. while having some trouble right now doing my script using solaris, i'm getting error:

"grep -hblcnsviw" pattern error


the usual grep is not working here.i hope you could me.


thanks.


coaxfiber

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

coaxfiber> grep -E -e -hblcnsviw 'MTP3b' Health_1_Mar26_10:33
grep: illegal option -- E
grep: illegal option -- e
Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .


coaxfiber> grep -E -e 'MTP3b' -e 'Rnsap' Health_1_Mar26_10:33
grep: illegal option -- E
grep: illegal option -- e
Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

HI,
Why cant u start a new thread instead of appending to an existing thread?

Raghu

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

Hi,
If u want to call egrep from awk then u shuld use system command.
If u want to replace something inside awk then u shuld use sub or gsub.
Better get a awk manual to read abt it.

Raghu

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

hi, can you help me out why i'm not allowed to post new thread.. thanks..

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

This shuld be answered by administrators.

Admins,
can u look into this issue.

Raghu

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

the contents of my scripts:

#!/usr/bin/ksh

integer x=1
while ((x<=20));

do

print $x;

if [ $x = 5 ]
then
x=10
fi
((x=x+1));

done
_____________
output:
1
2
3
4
5
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
-------------------------------

how can i make another skip: so my output would be:


1
2
3
4
5
11
12
13
14
18 ---> i skip from 15 to 17
19
20



tyvm.

re: need help doing a egrep and replace

oopsss. so sorry..

got the answers already..

tyvm..