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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting HELP: Shell Script to read a Log file line by line and extract Info based on KEYWORDS matching Post 302676513 by biztank on Tuesday 24th of July 2012 05:11:44 PM
Old 07-24-2012
i tried 2nd CASE statement

Code:
#!/bin/bash
file="/home/mbuser/log.txt"
val1='Load completed in'
fit=holy
err=crap
while IFS= read -r line
do
        let count++ # display $line or do somthing with $line
        #echo "$count $line"
case "$line" in
'*Import completed*')
        echo "Completed"
        fit=`expr substr "$line" 21 7`
        ;;
'*Error Count:*')
        echo "ERRROR"
        err=`expr substr "$line" 13 7`
        ;;
esac
done <"$file"
echo $fit $err

it outputs
holy crap ==< which i have initialized at top....as if it didnt go in the case statement.. what am i missing?
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Last edited by Corona688; 07-24-2012 at 06:20 PM..
 

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