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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting printf command Post 25891 by FIRE on Wednesday 7th of August 2002 08:37:14 AM
Old 08-07-2002
printf command

I want to make a logfile with error messages, like this:
(collumms: CUSTNR DATE TIME ERROR MESSAGE)
Code:
 
102      20020807 135417 1 Uptime server is more than 6 months
5        20020808 111335 3 Backup not Ok!
2001     20020808 120428 6 Free space at server1 is less than 20%
etcetera

I made this script:

Code:
CUSTNR=101
DATE=`date +%Y%m%d`
TIME=`date +%H%M%S` 
ERROR=1
MESSAGE="Uptime server is more than 6 months"

printf "%-8s %-10s %-6s %-6s %-80s\n" $CUSTNR $DATE $TIME $ERROR $MESSAGE >> error.log

But the variabele MESSAGE is printed wrong. The logfile looks something likes this:
Code:
 
102      20020807 135417 1 Uptime 
server   is       more   than 6 months

One of the problems are the spaces between de words in the MESSAGE strings.
How can I solve this/these problems?
 

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Log::Report::Dispatcher::Callback(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		    Log::Report::Dispatcher::Callback(3pm)

NAME
Log::Report::Dispatcher::Callback - call a code-ref for each log-line INHERITANCE
Log::Report::Dispatcher::Callback is a Log::Report::Dispatcher SYNOPSIS
sub cb($$$) { my ($options, $reason, $message) = @_; ... } dispatcher Log::Report::Dispatcher::Callback => 'cb' , callback => &cb; dispatcher CALLBACK => 'cb' # same , callback => &cb; DESCRIPTION
This basic file logger accepts a callback, which is called for each message which is to be logged. When you need complex things, you may best make your own extension to Log::Report::Dispatcher, but for simple things this will do. METHODS
Constructors $obj->close See "Constructors" in Log::Report::Dispatcher Log::Report::Dispatcher::Callback->new(TYPE, NAME, OPTIONS) -Option --Defined in --Default accept Log::Report::Dispatcher depend on mode callback <required> charset Log::Report::Dispatcher <undef> format_reason Log::Report::Dispatcher 'LOWERCASE' locale Log::Report::Dispatcher <system locale> mode Log::Report::Dispatcher 'NORMAL' accept => REASONS callback => CODE Your "callback" is called with four parameters: this dispatcher object, the options, a reason and a message. The "options" are the first parameter of Log::Report::report() (read over there). The "reason" is a capitized string like "ERROR". Finally, the "message" is a Log::Report::Message. charset => CHARSET format_reason => 'UPPERCASE'|'LOWERCASE'|'UCFIRST'|'IGNORE'|CODE locale => LOCALE mode => 'NORMAL'|'VERBOSE'|'ASSERT'|'DEBUG'|0..3 Accessors $obj->callback Returns the code reference which will handle each logged message. $obj->isDisabled See "Accessors" in Log::Report::Dispatcher $obj->mode See "Accessors" in Log::Report::Dispatcher $obj->name See "Accessors" in Log::Report::Dispatcher $obj->needs See "Accessors" in Log::Report::Dispatcher $obj->type See "Accessors" in Log::Report::Dispatcher Logging $obj->collectLocation Log::Report::Dispatcher::Callback->collectLocation See "Logging" in Log::Report::Dispatcher $obj->collectStack([MAXDEPTH]) Log::Report::Dispatcher::Callback->collectStack([MAXDEPTH]) See "Logging" in Log::Report::Dispatcher $obj->log(HASH-of-OPTIONS, REASON, MESSAGE) See "Logging" in Log::Report::Dispatcher $obj->stackTraceLine(OPTIONS) Log::Report::Dispatcher::Callback->stackTraceLine(OPTIONS) See "Logging" in Log::Report::Dispatcher $obj->translate(HASH-of-OPTIONS, REASON, MESSAGE) See "Logging" in Log::Report::Dispatcher SEE ALSO
This module is part of Log-Report distribution version 0.94, built on August 23, 2011. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/log-report/ LICENSE
Copyrights 2007-2011 by Mark Overmeer. For other contributors see ChangeLog. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html perl v5.14.2 2011-08-23 Log::Report::Dispatcher::Callback(3pm)
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