If I understood your requirements correctly, I believe the following script does everything you want. I tried it with a bunch of log files containing zero to four lines matching your pattern, with filenames matching and not matching your naming conventions. For files that have more than one line matching your pattern, it reports the contents of the line two lines after the last line matching your pattern:
On Solaris systems, use /usr/xpg4/bin/awk or nawk instead of awk.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 12-23-2012 at 03:22 AM..
Reason: Warn about which awk to use on Solaris systems.
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Hi,
I am new to Unix shell scripting. Can you please help me with this immediate requirement to code.. The requirement is as given below.
In a directory say Y, I have files like this.
PP_100000_28062006_122731_746.dat
PP_100000_28062006_122731_745.dat
PP_100000_28062006_122734_745.dat... (4 Replies)
I have a directory of about 30,000 image files. The file names are all yearmonthday.jpg however some of the files have yearmonthday-snapshot.jpg
i would like to move all files that contain the phrase -snapshot to their own directory.
Any assistance with the proper commands would be much... (1 Reply)
dear all,
i have .dat files named as:
34.dat
2.dat
16.dat
107.dat
i would like to sort them by their filenames as:
2.dat
16.dat
34.dat
107.dat
i have tried numerous combinations of sort and ls command (in vain) to obtain :
107.dat
16.dat
2.dat
34.dat (1 Reply)
Hi
I have a requirement like below
I need to sort the files based on the timestamp in the file name and run them in sorted order and then archive all the files which are one day old to temp directory
My files looks like this
PGABOLTXML1D_201108121235.xml... (1 Reply)
Hi, I am a newbie to shell programming and I need some help in sorting a list of files in ascending order of date in the filenames.
The file format is always : IGL01_AC_D_<YYYYMMDD>_N01_01
For example, in a directory MyDirectory I have the following files:
IGL01_AC_D_20110712_N01_01.dat... (11 Replies)
Hi all.
I am very new to linux scripting and i have a task i can only solve with a script.
I need to sort files base on the date string in their filenames and create a folder using the same date string then move the files to their respective folders.
Scenario:
Folder Path:... (1 Reply)
Hi all.
I am very new to linux scripting and i have a task i can only solve with a script.
I need to sort files base on the date string in their filenames and create a folder using the same date string then move the files to their respective folders.
Scenario:
Folder Path:... (1 Reply)
Hey guys,
Sorry for the basic question but I have a lot of files that I want to separate into groups based on filenames which I can then cat together. Eg I have:
(a_b_c.txt)
WB34_2_SLA8.txt
WB34_1_SLA8.txt
WB34_1_DB10.txt
WB34_2_DB10.txt
WB34_1_SLA8.txt
WB34_2_SLA8.txt
77_1_SLA8.txt... (1 Reply)
Input file:
100%ABC2 3.44E-12 USA
A2M%H02579 0E0 UK
100%ABC2 5.34E-8 UK
100%ABC2 3.25E-12 USA
A2M%H02579 5E-45 UK
Output file:
100%ABC2 3.44E-12 USA
100%ABC2 3.25E-12 USA
100%ABC2 5.34E-8 UK
A2M%H02579 0E0 UK
A2M%H02579 5E-45 UK
Code try:
sort -k1,1 -g -k2 -r input.txt... (2 Replies)