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# 1  
Old 05-24-2016
Unusual output of sed
i have a sed command that is looking for the workds OK, WARNING and CRITICAL and add html color to those words. e.g:
Code:
echo $CONSUMABLE |$SED s/OK./\<span\ style\=\"background-color\:green\;font-weight\:bold\;\"\>OK\<\\\/span\>/g

the output breaks every so often and changes my output as following:
Code:
<span style="backg" round-color:green;font-weight:bold;="">OK</span>

i cannot find what is causing this strange behavior or how to fix this.

can anyone help me understand what i am doing wrong?
Last edited by vbe; 05-24-2016 at 11:53 AM..
# 2  
Old 05-24-2016
Looks like your quoting is a bit crazy. This works and is easier to read:

Code:
echo "$consumable" | sed 's#OK.#<span style="background-color:green;font-weight:bold;">OK</span>#g'

# 3  
Old 05-24-2016
Code:
echo "$consumable" | sed '
s#OK#<span style="background-color:green;font-weight:bold;">OK</span>#g
s#WARNING#<span style="background-color:orange;font-weight:bold;">WARNING</span>#g
s#CRITICAL#<span style="background-color:red;font-weight:bold;">CRITICAL</span>#g
'

# 4  
Old 05-24-2016
i am still getting some unexpected results:

<span style="backgr
ound-color:green;font-weight:bold;">OK</span>



<span style="background-color:green;font-weight:bold;">OK</spa>


i cannot understand what they have in common or why my results give me weird printing but only on one or 2 lines...
# 5  
Old 05-24-2016
Please show us exactly what you are running, word for word, letter for letter, keystroke for keystroke. Also show all relevant input.
# 6  
Old 05-24-2016
Code:
CONSUMABLE="`$SNMPCHECKCMD -H ${PRINTERS[$PRINTER]} -C public -x \"CONSUM ALL\" -w 15 -c 10 |$SED  s/\!/\ \<br\>/g |$SED s/\|.*//g`"
CONSUMABLE="`echo $CONSUMABLE |$SED '
s#OK.#<span style="background-color:green;font-weight:bold;">OK</span>#g
s#WARNING.#<span style="background-color:orange;font-weight:bold;">WARNING</span>#g
s#CRITICAL.#<span style="background-color:red;font-weight:bold;">CRITICAL</span>#g'`"
OUTPUT+=$CONSUMABLE

Last edited by Corona688; 05-24-2016 at 03:44 PM..
# 7  
Old 05-24-2016
What does the value of CONSUMABLE end up being after this line?
Code:
CONSUMABLE="`$SNMPCHECKCMD -H ${PRINTERS[$PRINTER]} -C public -x \"CONSUM ALL\" -w 15 -c 10 |$SED  s/\!/\ \<br\>/g |$SED s/\|.*//g`"

Also, what is the value of SED?
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