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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting String searching and output to a file in a formatted text Post 302438511 by rdcwayx on Tuesday 20th of July 2010 03:03:46 AM
Old 07-20-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by cuji
hi rdc, thx for your prompt reply. i got "awk: Input line <Jun 29, 2010 5:24:3 cannot be longer than 3,000 bytes.
The input line number is 1. The file is batch-host.log.6.
The source line number is 1." message when running the script u provided. I tried to use below script instead:-

grep -h "TTOH 8031950001" *batch-host.log* |cut -d " " -f2-14 >test.log

but got attached output (missing 1st 4 bytes). Perhaps few items need to amended using above script?.

Thanks a lot ya..
Looks you saw my old post before I updated to awk command? I used cut first, because it is easy to get column 2 to 14, but seems there are more spaces between each column. such as "TTOH 8031950001" has 3 spaces between them. That's why I updated to awk command.

What you can do now is, adjust the range, maybe from 2 to 20 or something else.

For the awk command, I test succesfully in my system with your file batch-host.log.6. If your system is solaris, use /usr/bin/nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk
 

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