Originally Posted by bakunin

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First of all, you shouldn't bump up questions, because it is against the rules.

Second: please notice that this is not a help desk. If you want informed, precise answers to be given within a certain timeframe please consider hiring an UNIX expert.

Third: please bear in mind, that all people answering here are VOLUNTEERS. They might be (in fact they are) most times interested in helping you or someone else but they are not obligated to do so. If they do not feel like it (and, frankly, exhibiting a demanding attitude like you did makes them not feeling like it more likely) they do not have to answer at all.

Fourth: all these boards are about is helping one to help himself. Right now you have shown more effort in getting us to work faster than in solving your problems yourself. Take this as an opportunity to think over (and perhaps rearrange) your priorities.

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There is a simple answer to your problem: probably it could be solved with a finite effort and a little sed-scripting.

Longer answer: the real problem lies perhaps in the analysis of the problem and in formulating a solution which is general and reliable enough to let it run unsupervised. For this there are simply not enough data.

Some questions you will have to answer: you have provided a file with exactly one error. How would a file look like when there are two (any arbitrary number of) errors? How does the file look like when there are no errors at all? How will the file look like when there are different types of errors (say, the load stops midways because of some error - file error, disk full, what else)?

A stable and reliable script would be able to parse all these types of output (in fact it should be able to cope with every possible output) therefor you have to take all these different (?) output formats into account.

So please give more details and maybe we can work out a script that does exactly that or try to write one yourself. Provided that the problems mentioned above can be overcome here is a way to isolate your needed values:

You search for a specific value (for the sake of the example we will use start_time) and you know how the line looks like which contains this value:

Code:

.... any text ....
....
Run began on Sun Feb 08 23:37:02 2009
... some more text ....

You can search for this line easily with sed. Now replace the fixed text part "Run began on" with the variable name you want to assign it to to form a declaration:

Code:

sed -n 's/^Run began on/start_time \=/p'

And you will notice that from your logfile you will get out a single declaration reading:

Code:

start_time = Sun Feb 08 23:37:02 2009

This declaration you could directly use to initialize some variables in your script (source the file written this way in).

I hope this helps.

bakunin