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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting parsing log files, removing spaces and replace with commas Post 302323705 by TonyFullerMalv on Monday 8th of June 2009 06:34:36 PM
Old 06-08-2009
This would doi it:
Code:
$ sed -e s'/ /, /2' -e 's/ /, /3'  -e 's/ /, /4' -e 's/ /, /8' < /var/adm/messages > /outputlogfile

e.g.:
Code:
$ sed -e s'/ /, /2' -e 's/ /, /3'  -e 's/ /, /4' -e 's/ /, /8' logfile
Jun 5, 08:40:02, SunNiprS1, usba: [ID 349649 kern.info], PLEXTOR Corp. USB Storage Adapter 004400947B
Jun 5, 08:40:02, SunNiprS1, genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info], scsa2usb0 is /pci@1e,600000/usb@a/cdrom@2
Jun 5, 08:40:02, SunNiprS1, genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info], /pci@1e,600000/usb@a/cdrom@2 (scsa2usb0) online
Jun 5, 08:41:09, SunNiprS1, scsi: [ID 193665 kern.info], sd16 at scsa2usb0: target 0 lun 0
Jun 5, 08:41:09, SunNiprS1, genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info], sd16 is /pci@1e,600000/usb@a/cdrom@2/disk@0,0
Jun 5, 08:41:35, SunNiprS1, genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info], /pci@1e,600000/usb@a/cdrom@2/disk@0,0 (sd16) online

Note the device paths have commas in already which you may want to substitute for a different character first.

If you don't want spaces after the commas then add a "-e 's/, /,/g'" to the end.
Last edited by TonyFullerMalv; 06-08-2009 at 07:41 PM.. Reason: Added: If you don't want spaces after the commas line
 

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