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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Selecting A Block Of Data From A File (AWK) Post 302603170 by proc1269 on Wednesday 29th of February 2012 08:48:53 AM
Old 02-29-2012
Let me try again, the formatting was terrible (First time on forum - sorry)

I am trying to use, unsucessfully I might add, awk to strip a large block of information from and audit output.The format resembles the following:
Code:
-----------------------------------------------------------
Event: execve
Time: Tue Feb 28 17:02:25 12 GMT
PID: 10938
PPID: 8706
User/Grp: 1234/12(user1/grp1)
Groups: 12(grp1)
Effective privileges: "BASIC"
Permitted privileges: "BASIC"
Retained privileges: "BASIC"
Audit tag: 0: -1:user1:1029472123
TTY: pts/1
Return1: 0
Arg 1 (file info): 
given path = "/path/privrun" 
inode = 333 
device = 64, 0x01839 
mode = 010588 
owner uid/gid = 1500/120 
type = regular file
Arg 2 (argument list): 
arg #1 = "cmd1" 
arg #2 = "cmd2" 
arg #3 = "cmd3"
Other (fie info): 
inode = -1
-----------------------------------------------------------
Event: execve
Time: Tue Feb 28 17:02:25 12 GMT

I need to extract all of the data between the dashed lines based on the search field of ' arg #2 = "cmd2" ' Note: There are no spaces between the lines.

Any help would be extremely appreciated....

Many thanks
Last edited by joeyg; 02-29-2012 at 10:26 AM.. Reason: Wrap programming and data with CodeTags; makes easier to read
 

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NAME

       Ns_BindSock,  Ns_GetSockAddr,  Ns_SockAccept,  Ns_SockAsyncConnect,  Ns_SockAsyncConnect2,  Ns_SockBind, Ns_SockCloseLater, Ns_SockConnect,
       Ns_SockConnect2, Ns_SockListen, Ns_SockListenEx, Ns_SockPipe, Ns_SockSetBlocking, Ns_SockSetNonBlocking, Ns_SockStrError,  Ns_SockTimedCon-
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SYNOPSIS

       #include "ns.h"

       Ns_BindSock(arg, arg)

       Ns_GetSockAddr(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockAccept(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockAsyncConnect(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockAsyncConnect2(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockBind(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockCloseLater(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockConnect(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockConnect2(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockListen(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockListenEx(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockPipe(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockSetBlocking(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockSetNonBlocking(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockStrError(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockTimedConnect(arg, arg)

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