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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing Null data in output Post 302131771 by liketheshell on Monday 13th of August 2007 04:25:58 PM
Old 08-13-2007
Removing Null data in output
Hello all,

I have a script that has an infile with system package information. For the most part the script is looking well. The only thing i need help is in testing for null entries and removing null data.


#!/usr/bin/ksh

for i in `cat /mwncps/bin/eco_pack`

do

NAME=`pkginfo -l | grep $i | grep 'NAME' | awk '{ print $5 }'`
VER=`pkginfo | grep $i | grep version | awk 'BEGIN {OFS=" "}{gsub(/version:/,"") ;}{ print $7 }'`

echo "`hostname`,"$NAME","$VER""

done

The output now looks like this

hostname,,
hostname,,
hostname,package,version <-- this part of the output is correct
hostname,package,version
hostname,package,version
hostname,package,version
hostname,, <-- this will need to be removed completely
hostname,,

I welcome your feedback

Regards,

Al
 

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