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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting SED variable substitution Post 302359333 by pludi on Tuesday 6th of October 2009 09:41:10 AM
Old 10-06-2009
You have a whitespaces in you $date_var, so
Code:
sed '/^'$date_var'/,/^'$end_string'/!d' Interface.log | sed '/^#/d' | sed '$d' >> current_day_log.txt

is seen by the shell as (example)
Code:
sed /^01 Oct 2009/,/^01 Oct 2009 12:14:21/!d Interface.log | sed /^#/d | sed $d >> current_day_log.txt

This means that the sed command isn't seen as one parameter, but several, breaking the structure/command.

Better write it as
Code:
sed '/^'"$date_var"'/,/^'"$end_string"'/!d' Interface.log | sed '/^#/d' | sed '$d' >> current_day_log.txt

so that the whitespaces aren't seen as parameter delimiters, without running into parameter expansion problems.
 

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IpfilterDlfConverter(3pm)				  LogReport's Lire Documentation				 IpfilterDlfConverter(3pm)

NAME

       Lire::Firewall::IpfilterDlfConverter - convert ipf (ipmon) logs to firewall DLF

DESCRIPTION

       Lire::Firewall::IpfilterDlfConverter converts Ipfilter logs into firewall DLF format.  Input for this converter is the standard ipf syslog
       log file as produced by ipmon. IP Filter is shipped with FreeBSD, OpenBSD (up to 2.9) and some other OS's.

EXAMPLE

       A ipfilter logfile which looks like

	Oct 30 07:42:29 rolle ipmon[16747]: 07:42:28.585962	ie0 @0:9
	 b 192.168.48.1,45085 -> 192.168.48.2,22 PR tcp len 20 64 -S OUT
	Oct 30 07:40:24 rolle ipmon[16747]: 07:40:23.631307	ep1 @0:6
	 b 192.168.26.5,113 -> 192.168.26.1,3717 PR tcp len 20 40 -AR OUT
	Oct 30 07:42:29 rolle ipmon[16747]: 07:42:28.585962	ie0 @0:9
	 b 192.168.48.1,45085 -> 192.168.48.2,22 PR tcp len 20 64 -S OUT
	Oct 30 07:44:11 rolle ipmon[16747]: 07:44:10.605416 2x	   ep1 @0:15
	 b 192.168.26.1,138 -> 192.168.26.255,138 PR udp len 20 257  IN
	Oct 30 07:44:34 rolle ipmon[16747]: 07:44:33.891869	ie0 @0:10
	 b 192.168.48.1,23406 -> 192.168.48.2,22 PR tcp len 20 64 -S OUT
	Oct 30 07:49:13 rolle ipmon[16747]: 07:49:12.554420	ep1 @0:15
	 b 210.132.100.117 -> 192.168.26.5 PR icmp len 20 56 icmp 3/3 for
	 192.168.26.5,61915 - 210.132.100.117,53 PR udp len 20 23040 IN
	Oct 30 07:50:23 rolle ipmon[16747]: 07:50:22.908107	ep1 @0:15
	 b 210.132.100.117 -> 192.168.26.5 PR icmp len 20 56 icmp 3/3 for
	 192.168.26.5,4480 - 210.132.100.117,53 PR udp len 20 19712 IN
	Oct 30 07:56:11 rolle ipmon[16747]: 07:56:11.113029 2x	   ep1 @0:15
	 b 192.168.26.1,138 -> 192.168.26.255,138 PR udp len 20 257  IN

       (that's: .... 'PR' protocol 'len' length_of_ip_headers_saved packetlength direction) will get converted to something like

	994398737 denied igmp 100.187.115.1 - ep1 LIRE_NOTAVAIL 
	 224.0.0.2 - 56
	994398861 denied igmp 100.187.115.1 - ep1 LIRE_NOTAVAIL 
	 224.0.0.1 - 56
	994398862 denied igmp 100.187.115.1 - ep1 LIRE_NOTAVAIL 
	 224.0.0.2 - 56
	994406849 denied udp 192.168.26.4 137 ie0 LIRE_NOTAVAIL 
	 192.168.26.255 137 116
	994406850 denied udp 192.168.26.4 137 ie0 LIRE_NOTAVAIL 
	 192.168.26.255 137 116
	994406866 denied udp 192.168.26.4 137 ie0 LIRE_NOTAVAIL 
	 192.168.26.255 137 98

SEE ALSO

       ipl(4) for description of log structure.

       The ipmon.c source (e.g. on

	http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/ 
	 src/usr.sbin/ipmon/Attic/ipmon.c?rev=1.27& 
	 content-type=text/plain&hideattic=0

       ) for the specification of the log syntax.

       The IP Filter webpage on http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html

AUTHOR

       Joost van Baal <joostvb@logreport.org>, Wessel Dankers <wsl@logreport.org>

VERSION

       $Id: IpfilterDlfConverter.pm,v 1.7 2009/03/15 08:10:55 vanbaal Exp $

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Stichting LogReport Foundation LogReport@LogReport.org

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program (see COPYING); if not, check with
       http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.

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