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08-11-2008

jmd2004

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Awk help with populating variable

Hi,

I'm looking for help trying to parse a data stream. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Quote:

I need the awk statment to retrieve the entire date "Aug 3 00:00:02 2008" and then populate the "a" variable. Currently I am only populating it with $2 or "Aug".

Any I thoughts on how I can populate variable "a" with the entire line or date?

Thanks!
JMD

My awk statement is

Code:

awk '/Aug/{a=$2}/vol/{print a, host, $1, $2, $3, $4, $5}' out.txt

Sample Data Stream "out.txt"

-----------------------------

# Aug 3 00:00:00 2008

===== DF =====
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/vol/vol1/ 781441232 285519024 495922208 37% /vol/vol1/
/vol/vol2/ 781441232 320075968 461365264 41% /vol/vol2/

# Aug 3 00:00:02 2008

===== DF =====
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/vol/vol1/ 2495490048 1738484048 757006000 70% /vol/vol2/
/vol/vol2/ 8734215168 7250720128 1483495040 83% /vol/vol2/

Quote:

What i'm getting from the above awk statement:

Aug /vol/vol2/ 781441232 320075968 461365264 41% /vol/vol2/
Aug /vol/vol1/ 2495490048 1738484048 757006000 70% /vol/vol2/
Aug /vol/vol2/ 8734215168 7250720128 1483495040 83% /vol/vol2/

-------------

Thanks!

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