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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help parsing logs maybe with menu and variables? Post 302354194 by taekwondo on Thursday 17th of September 2009 02:25:49 PM
Old 09-17-2009
Help parsing logs maybe with menu and variables?
I would like to parse through some logs looking for things like exception or failed (grep -i failed). Ideal would be if it were in a menu format so someone without unix ability could just choose option 1 2 or 3 etc. If I could pass the hostname to a variable also that would be awesome, so someone could input the hostname and the script would know for hostname 'name' do the following stuff, look through the logs and find exceptions? I appreciate anyone's help, I'm not very good at scripts. Thanks.

this is some info on the server pwd. Oh, since there are so many logs, it would be nice if it could do it by day, maybe pass the date to a variable or something like that so someone could search by date?

Code:
archive]$ pwd
/home/username/current_release/logs/archive
 archive]$ ls -al

dassimulator.eif.2009_245_155007.381.log   demo-sdif.ops.2009_252_190302.853.log
demo-dsdm.ops.2009_260_123941.256.log      demo-snif.ops.2009_260_135053.210.log
demo-HMD-sdif.ops.2009_260_133644.200.log  demo-sve.ops.2009_260_135208.928.log
demo-sam.ops.2009_259_231215.066.log


---------- Post updated at 02:25 PM ---------- Previous update was at 11:32 AM ----------

Also, if you write a script and do this:

Quote:
cd /home/henry
pwd
ls -al *.log>/home/henry/logfiles
cat /home/henry/logfiles |awk '{print $9}
Output is a filename
If I want to take that filename and pass it to grep -i failure
so I can see which files had failures? How can I do that?
I tried |grep -i failure but it didn't work, also < grep -i failure didn't work.
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Last edited by Neo; 09-21-2009 at 03:53 PM.. Reason: please use code tags
 

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