grep'ing a variable that contains a metacharacter ($) with a while loop
This is driving me crazy, and I'm hoping someone can help me out with this. I'm trying to do a simple while loop to go through a log file. I'm pulling out all of the lines with a specific log line, getting an ID from that line, and once I have a list of IDs I want to loop back through the log and check for the times that this line has happened.
This is what I've got so far.
So this gives me a list of asset IDs. The problem is, lets say now I want to loop through the log and grep for these. No matter what I do I can't seem to make it work.
I've tried:
But that doesn't work. I tried a bunch of combinations of single and double quotes and that didn't work. I even got creative and tried splitting up each variable into an array and then combining it and grep'ing for that...
But that didn't work at all either. Frankly, at this point I'm getting a little frustrated. I've actually found a way to get the information I needed, but I'm sure at some point I'm going to want to loop through this log.
I have, say, a dozen files, and I want to grep for a string of text within them. I don't remember the exact syntax, but let me give it a shot and show you an idea here...
find . -type f -exec grep thisword {} \;
...and there's a way to put more than one grep into the statement, so it will tell... (1 Reply)
I have a file that is 20 - 80+ MB in size that is a certain type of log file.
It logs one of our processes and this process is multi-threaded. Therefore the log file is kind of a mess. Here's an example:
The logfile looks like: "DATE TIME - THREAD ID - Details", and a new file is created... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I'm writing a script that will automate the launch of some services on my AIX machine. However, some services are dependent on the successful startup of others. When I start these services manually, I usually just check a log file until I see a message that confirms a successful... (3 Replies)
This script is supposed to find out if tomcat is running or not.
#!/bin/sh
if netstat -a | grep `grep ${1}: /tomcat/bases | awk -F: '{print $3}'` > /dev/null
then
echo Tomcat for $1 running
else
echo Tomcat for $1 NOT running
fi
the /tomcat/bases is a file that... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a text file with data in that I wish to extract, assign to a variable and process through a loop.
Kind of the process that I am after:
1: Grep the text file for the values.
Currently using:
cat /root/test.txt | grep TESTING= | awk -F"=" '{ a = $2 } {print a}' | sort -u
... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I tried to grep ".sh_history" (DOTsh_history) file and did not return anything though I found the word in .sh _history file through vi editor in Linux. Then I tried to grep ".profile" to check if it is the prob with hidden files and I got results.
Then I verified the same with my friend... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a loop running until a variable L that is read previously in the full script. I'd like to grep some information in an input file at a line that contains the value of the loop parameter $i.
I've tried to use grep, but the problem is nothing is written in the FILE files. It seems grep... (5 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I'm trying to write an script that will be launched by a user. The script will look at a log file and check for alerts with the date (supplied by user) and a machine's hostname (also supplied by the user). I'm trying to get the output formatted just like the log file.
The logfile looks... (5 Replies)
Hi all,
Am writing a ksh script where I am looking for processes that has gone defunct and all of which has the same PPID
PID is the variable that I need to match as this is the process ID of the processes that has gone defunct
Am just curious how come the following DOES NOT work?
ps... (6 Replies)
If I am running a bash command, and some awk getting the ethernet adapter on the local machine. It works fine. But if I will run it from the remote, it is EMPTY on echo and throwing error in grep.
Thank you
This work perfectly fine
$ f=`/sbin/ip a|grep 127.127 | awk '{print $NF }' ` ; ip... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT X11R4
zgrep
ZGREP(1) General Commands Manual ZGREP(1)NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression
SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...
DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code:
(-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the
standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.
If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.
EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified.
AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)
SEE ALSO grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)ZGREP(1)