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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting finding lines only between a certain string Post 302252601 by aismann on Wednesday 29th of October 2008 10:52:14 PM
Old 10-29-2008
Dear Annihillanic,

I got the script working. Sorry but i have another question. I am making the script s little interactive, and have modified it to search for different strings everytime i run it. I cant seem to replace the variable "GAA" in the script. Any idea why? below if the output of the script when run in debug mode

Code:
root@ckpgpay11core> ./sarascript.sh
+ echo Enter input filename:
Enter input filename:
+ read inputfile
mstgb_aialarm_20081021.wri
+ echo Enter path of outputfile with name:
Enter path of outputfile with name:
+ read outputfile
/tmp/testing
+ echo Enter tag to look for:
Enter tag to look for:
+ read GAA
20081013003507
+ awk
        # new record, reset array index
        /^----/ { i=0 }
        # accumulate record contents in array
        { a[++i]=$0 }
        # matching record
        /\$GAA/ {
                # dump array contents
                for (j=1; j<=i; j++)
                        print a[j]
                # get the rest of this record
                while (getline && $0 !~ /^----/)
                        print
                # print the record terminator and reset the array
                print
                i=0
        }
 mstgb_aialarm_20081021.wri

root@ckpgpay11core> ls -la | grep testing
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Oct 30 10:47 testing

 

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