Shell Programming and Scripting

I apologize. I overlooked the 'ls' part.

The quick way would be:

ls -l|awk '{print $9}'|xargs pkginfo |grep -i error > temp1.txt

while read record
do
echo $record | awk -F'"' '{ print $2 }'
done < temp1.txt

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Make sure that in the awk command after -F its a 'single tick' followed by 'double tick' followed by 'single tick' followed by space followed by 'single tick' followed by 'paranthesis start'.....

See the above helps..

Hi ,

Thanks again.
When i do # ls -l|awk '{print $9}'|xargs pkginfo |grep -i error > temp1.txt
there's nothing written onto temp1.txt
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May 7 19:49 temp1.txt

So i guess the next part won't work with this empty file.

From what denn mentioned above, try the following:

ls -l|awk '{print $9}'|xargs pkginfo |grep -i error 2> temp1.txt

and then the while loop...

:-)

Hi
Again the first command gave empty temp1.txt.
I tried with both ls -l & ls -1

Wow. It is just surprising that its not catching either std err or std out.

Lets try this:

ls -l|awk '{print $9}'|xargs pkginfo |grep -i error 2>&1 | awk -F'"' '{ print $2 }'


no while loop...
this gotta work....

ok, let's go over this one more time.

ERROR: information for "SUNWxwslb" was not found
This is coming from std err, not std. out, so grep is not useful here

1. you still insisting to pipe std out to grep and that's just never going to work!
2. the ls -l|awk '{print $9}' in not needed i.e. wasted code

Code:

ls -1 | xargs pkginfo 2> /var/tmp/errorfile
more /var/tmp/errorfile

Denn,

you are right.

1. ls -l | awk '{print $9'} = ls -1 (no need for extra code)

Jartan,

Did you try what Denn provided?

ls -1 | xargs pkginfo 2> /var/tmp/errorfile

If the above errorfile has the whole error line, then you can add the while loop to just get the data between "".