Vijay,
A
crude solution is outlined below -
Note - I highly suspect that this is not the most efficient way to perform this task.
ALSO!! Please, in future provide the forum with detail of your query and a sample of your code to show how far you have troubled. You'll likely get more qualified responses in return.
Contents of 'thefile.txt':
####<Nov12 2007> <user: Vijay> <user id:123456 college:anna univ> <error code: runtime exception>
####<Nov13 2008> <user: Cameron> <user id:789012 college:bond univ> <error code: tux runtime exception>
Script:
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
while read inline
do
echo ${inline}
detail=`echo ${inline} | cut -f 1 -d ">" | cut -f 2 -d "<"`
user=`echo ${inline} | cut -f 4 -d " " | cut -f 1 -d ">"`
uid=`echo ${inline} | cut -f 3 -d ">" | cut -f 2 -d ":" | cut -f 1 -d " "`
uni=`echo ${inline} | cut -f 3 -d ">" | cut -f 3 -d ":"`
err=`echo ${inline} | cut -f 4 -d ">" | cut -f 2 -d ":" | cut -f 2- -d " "`
echo '- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -'
echo ''
echo ' Detail: '${detail}
echo ' User: '${user}
echo ' User ID: '${uid}
echo ' University: '${uni}
echo ' Error: '${err}
echo ''
echo '- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -'
echo ''
done < /home/cameron/thefile.txt
Output:
Code:
####<Nov12 2007> <user: Vijay> <user id:123456 college:anna univ> <error code: runtime exception>
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Detail: Nov12 2007
User: Vijay
User ID: 123456
University: anna univ
Error: runtime exception
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
####<Nov13 2008> <user: Cameron> <user id:789012 college:bond univ> <error code: tux runtime exception>
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Detail: Nov13 2008
User: Cameron
User ID: 789012
University: bond univ
Error: tux runtime exception
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
