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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Error when using sed Post 302119218 by Raghuram.P on Tuesday 29th of May 2007 12:14:04 AM
Old 05-29-2007
Error when using sed

Hi,
I have a input file with following contents


---------------------------------------------------------Run Number: 1-----------------------------------------------------------
test_run -layout test_vaal -i [ /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528_ip.txt /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528__op.txt]|Started|05/28/2007 02:19:30|TEST|8651
---------------------------------------------------------out_file-----------------------------------------------------------
item_id|status_desc|description
test_run -layout test_vaal -i [ /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528_ip.txt /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528__op.txt]|Completed|05/28/2007 02:19:33|TEST|8651
---------------------------------------------------------Run Number: 2-----------------------------------------------------------
test_run -layout test_vaal -i [ /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528_ip.txt /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528__op.txt]|Started|05/28/2007 02:27:25|TEST|24745
---------------------------------------------------------out_file-----------------------------------------------------------
item_id|status_desc|description
test_run -layout test_vaal -i [ /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528_ip.txt /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528__op.txt]|Completed|05/28/2007 02:27:27|TEST|24745
---------------------------------------------------------Run Number: 3-----------------------------------------------------------
test_run -layout test_vaal -i [ /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528_ip.txt /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528__op.txt]|Started|05/28/2007 02:56:32|TEST|5560
---------------------------------------------------------out_file-----------------------------------------------------------
item_id|status_desc|description
test_run -layout test_vaal -i [ /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528_ip.txt /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528__op.txt]|Completed|05/28/2007 02:56:34|TEST|5560
---------------------------------------------------------Run Number: 4-----------------------------------------------------------
test_run -layout test_vaal -i [ /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528_ip.txt /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528__op.txt]|Started|05/28/2007 02:57:32|TEST|11961
---------------------------------------------------------out_file-----------------------------------------------------------
item_id|status_desc|description
test_run -layout test_vaal -i [ /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528_ip.txt /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528__op.txt]|Completed|05/28/2007 02:57:33|TEST|11961
---------------------------------------------------------Run Number: 5-----------------------------------------------------------
test_run -layout test_vaal -i [ /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528_ip.txt /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528__op.txt]|Started|05/28/2007 04:17:31|TEST|24685
---------------------------------------------------------out_file-----------------------------------------------------------
item_id|status_desc|description
test_run -layout test_vaal -i [ /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528_ip.txt /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528__op.txt]|Completed|05/28/2007 04:17:33|TEST|24685


Input to the script will be

test_run -layout test_vaal -i [ /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528_ip.txt /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528__op.txt]

My job is to extract the last occurance of the expression that is from IP_EXPR|Started tp IP_EXPR|Completed

I tried with sed but it gives the following error
sed: -e expression #1, char 40: extra characters after command

Following is my code

IP="test_run -layout test_vaal -i [ /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528_ip.txt /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528__op.txt]"
IP_FILE="test.txt"

EXPR=`echo $IP | sed 's/\[//g' | sed 's/\]//g'`
echo "EXPR is : ${EXPR}"

EXTRACTED=`cat $IP_FILE | sed 's/\[//g' | sed 's/\]//g' |sed 's/ /!/g' | sed -n "/${EXPR}/,/${EXPR}/p" `

echo "EXTRACTED is : ${EXTRACTED}"

Can somebody help me out in this


Raghu
 

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TEST(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   TEST(1)

NAME
test - condition command SYNOPSIS
test expr DESCRIPTION
test evaluates the expression expr, and if its value is true then returns zero exit status; otherwise, a non zero exit status is returned. test returns a non zero exit if there are no arguments. The following primitives are used to construct expr. -r file true if the file exists and is readable. -w file true if the file exists and is writable. -f file true if the file exists and is not a directory. -d file true if the file exists and is a directory. -s file true if the file exists and has a size greater than zero. -t [ fildes ] true if the open file whose file descriptor number is fildes (1 by default) is associated with a terminal device. -z s1 true if the length of string s1 is zero. -n s1 true if the length of the string s1 is nonzero. s1 = s2 true if the strings s1 and s2 are equal. s1 != s2 true if the strings s1 and s2 are not equal. s1 true if s1 is not the null string. n1 -eq n2 true if the integers n1 and n2 are algebraically equal. Any of the comparisons -ne, -gt, -ge, -lt, or -le may be used in place of -eq. These primaries may be combined with the following operators: ! unary negation operator -a binary and operator -o binary or operator ( expr ) parentheses for grouping. -a has higher precedence than -o. Notice that all the operators and flags are separate arguments to test. Notice also that parentheses are meaningful to the Shell and must be escaped. SEE ALSO
sh(1), find(1) TEST(1)
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