i have this script that searches for a pattern.
However it fails if the pattern includes some
special characters. So far, it fails with the
following strings:
1. -Cr
2. $Mj
3. H'412
would a sed or awk be more effective?
i don't want the users to put the (\)
during the search (they... (5 Replies)
Hi all,
How do I extract a value without special characters? I need to extract the value of %Used from below and if its greater than 80, need to send a notification.
I am doing this right now..Its giving 17%..Is there a way to extract the value and assign it to a variable in one step?
df |grep... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
We are facing the following problem in our HP-UX machine: software that manipulates utf-8 encoded strings (e.g. during string cut), fails to correctly manipulate strings (all containing Greek characters) that contain special characters like @, &, # etc. Actually, in different... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a CSV file in which some fields contains special character for ex:-
my file is file 1
cat file1
abcd,bgfht,ngbht,abvc ****
hdlld,hsgdt,bhfy,knht ****
whenever i am trying to put a 4th feild in a variable its giving me list of all the files i have in current... (6 Replies)
I'm using awk '{print $1}' and it works most of the time to print the contents of a mysql query loop, but occationally I get a field with some special character in it, is there a way to tell awk to ignore all special characters between my FS? I have >186K records, so building a list of ALL special... (6 Replies)
Hi Experts.
I'm stuck with the below AWK code where i'm trying to move the records containing any special characters in the last field to a bad file.
awk -F, '{if ($NF ~ /^|^/) print >"goodfile";else print >"badfile"}' filename
sample data
1,abc,def,1234,A *
2,bed,dec,342,* A ... (6 Replies)
grep -i "$line,$opline" COMBO_JUNK|awk -F, '
{
C4+=$4
}
{
}
END {
print C4
}
' OFS=,`
when i run this command in the script.... it o/p all the value as 0 if $line contains any special parameters.....
but the same script if i run in command prompt... it shows... (4 Replies)
This is really frustrating because I can't figure it out.
I'm running a health check script. One of the items I'm checking is the amount of memory on a server. I use the free command, which outputs something like this (excerpt)
Mem: 100 100 100 100
Swap: 100 100 100 100
In my debugging... (5 Replies)
Hello Folks,
Need to bisect strings based on a subset.
Below works good.
echo /a/b/c/d | awk -F"/c/d$" '{print $1}'
/a/b
However, it goes awry with special characters.
echo /a/b/c+/d | awk -F"/c+/d$" '{print $1}'
/a/b/c+/d
Desired output:
/a/b
Escaping the special characters... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: vibhor_agarwali
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logtop
LOGTOP(1) General Commands Manual LOGTOP(1)NAME
logtop - Realtime log line rate analyser
SYNOPSIS
logtop [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION
logtop is a System Administrator tool analyzing line rate on stdin.
It reads on stdin and print a constantly updated result
displaying, in columns:
Line number, count, frequency, and the actual line.
$ tail -f FILE | logtop
is the friendly version of:
$ watch 'tail FILE | sort | uniq -c | sort -gr'
OPTIONS -s, --size=K
Only keep K lines in memory, instead of 10000.
-q, --quiet
Do not display a live view of the data, only display a top at exit.
-l, --line-by-line=K
Print result line by line, in a machine friendly format, K is the number of result to print per line.
Line by line format is : [%d %f %s ]*
%d : Number of occurences
%f : Frequency of apparition
%s : String (Control chars replaced by dots.
-i, --interval=K
Interval between graphical updates, in seconds. Defaults to 1.
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
-v, --version
Show version of program.
EXAMPLES
Here are some logtop usage examples.
tail -f cache.log | grep -o "HIT|MISS" | logtop
Realtime hit / miss ratio on some caching software log file.
tail -f access.log | cut -d' ' -f1 | logtop -s 10000
Realtime most querying IPs on your server, as long as log lines in access.log starts with the client IP.
tail -f access.log | cut -d' ' -f7 | logtop -s 10000
Realtime most requested web pages in a NCSA like log file.
cat auth.log | grep -v "CRON" | grep -o ": .*" | logtop -q -s 100000
Display a one-shot simple analyse of your auth.log.
SEE ALSO watch(1)AUTHOR
logtop was written by Julien Palard.
This manual page was written by Julien Palard <julien@palard.fr>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).
April 16, 2011 LOGTOP(1)