I]hi all
i am in confusion since last 2 days
i posted thraed yesterday and some friends did help but still i couldnt get solution to my problem

let it be very clear
i have a long log file of alkatel switch and i have to seperate the minor major and critical alarms shown by ! , !! and !!! respectively

the file format is like this[/I]

>> ALAIL;

CMD ALAIL 06095 08-01-30 11-58-23
INP ALAIL 06095 08-01-30 11-58-23
OPTEX=



RES ALAIL 06095 08-01-30 11-58-24
CEN=1/08-01-30/11 H 58 MN 19/STORED ALARMS LIST
PROCESSING TPFFIR ACC


! *A0628/540 /07-12-17/15 H 58/N=7598/TYP=ICT/CAT=SI/EVENT=MAL
/NCEN=MULCT /AM =SMTA1/AGEO=S1-TR01-B03-A085-R000
/TEXAL=AIS/COMPL.INF:
/AF=URMA1
/ ICTRQ AGCA=S1-TR01-B03-A112-R065
/AMET=01-07-02
/AFLR=222-09/CRC=NACT
!!! *A0628/303 /07-12-17/15 H 46/N=7501/TYP=COM/CAT=IM/EVENT=MAL
/NCEN=MULCT /AFUR =URAD- 4/AGEO=BUDLASAN-B01
/TEXAL=SINGLE JUNCT/UT OOS/COMPL.INF:
/CN=3


!!! *A0628/306 /08-01-23/07 H 20/N=9619/TYP=COM/CAT=IM/EVENT=MAL
/NCEN=MULCT /AFCN =CNLM3-4/AGEO=MKRASHID-B02-A003
/TEXAL=CN ISOLATED
!!! *A0628/303 /07-12-17/15 H 46/N=7503/TYP=COM/CAT=IM/EVENT=MAL
/NCEN=MULCT /AFUR =URAD- 12/AGEO=KHOTYWAL-B01
/TEXAL=SINGLE JUNCT/UT OOS/COMPL.INF:
/CN=0
!!! *A0628/089 /08-01-29/22 H 14/N=1760/TYP=ENP/CAT=IM/EVENT=MAL
/NCEN=MULCT /AFUR =URAD- 11/AGEO=QADIRPUR-B01
/TEXAL=GENERATING UNIT


!! *A0628/320 /08-01-17/13 H 47/N=8062/TYP=COM/CAT=ID/EVENT=MAL
/NCEN=MULCT /AFUR =URAL- 15/AGEO=S1-TR01-B04
/TEXAL=FAULTY UNIT/COMPL.INF:
* #F0612/T11F14/NCEN=MULCT /08-01-30/11 H 33/NAM=ODCAB /TDA=0001
/N=7064/NIV=2/ENS=006/SENS=013-000-000/P='0228'H/CN=02/PAR='03'H
/EM: AFUR =URAL- 15
!!! *A0628/303 /07-12-17/15 H 46/N=7506/TYP=COM/CAT=IM/EVENT=MAL
/NCEN=MULCT /AFUR =URAD- 7/AGEO=ADABOSAN-B01
/TEXAL=SINGLE JUNCT/UT OOS/COMPL.INF:
/CN=2


!!! *A0628/303 /07-12-17/15 H 46/N=7507/TYP=COM/CAT=IM/EVENT=MAL
/NCEN=MULCT /AFUR =URAD- 11/AGEO=QADIRPUR-B01
/TEXAL=SINGLE JUNCT/UT OOS/COMPL.INF:
/CN=2
!! *A0628/320 /08-01-26/06 H 39/N=0566/TYP=COM/CAT=ID/EVENT=MAL
/NCEN=MULCT /AFUR =URAD- 14/AGEO=KHOKARAN-B01
/TEXAL=FAULTY UNIT/COMPL.INF:

how wil i extract these paragraphs of alarms in respective alarm file??
i need to extract this log on the basis of prefix ! , !! , !!!

i am using the code to take input from file into script as

i want to see this code in bash only not in perl and any othe language please do me this favor

rm old alarm* files
will read an input file called alarms
put any beginning undefined lines into alarm
read thru the file, and based on ! or !! or !!! determine output file
write line to case'd filename

Note: once an alarm file is set, everything will be written there until a new alarm file is calculated.



#! /bin/bash

rm alarm alarm1 alarm2 alarm3
al_fl="alarm"
while read alt
do
al_pr=$(echo $alt | cut -d" " -f1)
case "$al_pr"
in
'!') al_fl="alarm1";;
'!!') al_fl="alarm2";;
'!!!') al_fl="alarm3";;
*) ;;
esac
# echo "$al_pr" "$al_fl"
echo "$alt">>"$al_fl"
done < alarms

is any one there to help me out
i am waiting since 2 days

i am trying the code above

but the problem is this , i have to deal with a log file keeping alarms of dated dec,07-jan 08
i have to extract these alarms entry by entry ,along with the contents it have ,to their respective files
(example of file given above)

i must have to take input from a file and then sort it and redirect respective paragraghs of log to that particular file e.g. ! to minor alarm file and so

i havnt successful in acheiving input from file and to sort by !!! , !! and !.

will u plz revise your script.

in short i wnt to extract paragraphs from a file by prefix ! , !! & !!!
thanx

plz help me to come to solution of my problem
i want to extract paragraphs line following prefix ! , !! and !!!
i tried so mant times but i coldnt do it
file sample is in given above thraed

How about using something like this to extract all paragraphs with the !'s until a blank line or the next line that starts with a "!"?

sed -n '/^!!![^!]/,/[^$|^!]/p' # !!!
sed -n '/^!![^!]/,/[^$|^!]/p' # !!
sed -n '/^![^!]/,/[^$|^!]/p' # !

These should get your individual paragraphs.