Complicated SED search required - Page 2

Scrutinizer · #8 (**permalink**) 5 Days Ago

Hi Ahmad, scottn's code works well. In your example you left out the double quotes after the second DESCRIPTION, which are part of the format.

ahmad.diab · #9 (**permalink**) 5 Days Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scrutinizer

Hi Ahmad, scottn's code works well. In your eaxmple you omitted the double quotes after the second DESCRIPTION, which are part of the format.

You are right man my bad

badoshi · #10 (**permalink**) 5 Days Ago

many many thanks to everyone that replied, the first bit of code I tried worked a treat, so stuck with that for the moment:

Code:

awk '
  { $1 = $1 }
  /DESCRIPTION/ { p=" "; next }
  p { p=p" "$0; if (/"$/) {gsub(/ *"/,"",p); print p;p=""}}
' infile

I'll be looking through the rest of the given examples too - it's definitley a useful skill to have. You guys are a real lifesaver!

otheus · #11 (**permalink**) 4 Days Ago

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Originally Posted by badoshi

You guys are a real lifesaver!

Wow, I didn't realize hospitals were using SNMP in their cardio defibrilators!

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