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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Problem piping find output to awk, 1st line filename is truncated, other lines are fine. Post 302846701 by Scrutinizer on Sunday 25th of August 2013 01:07:14 PM
Old 08-25-2013
Glad it helps Smilie

Note: FS="**" only works in some awks, where it may happen to mean "zero or more asterisks" .

However, this is not defined behaviour..

Quote:
The <asterisk>, <plus-sign>, <question-mark>, and <left-brace> shall be special except when used in a bracket expression (see RE Bracket Expression). Any of the following uses produce undefined results:

If these characters appear first in an ERE, or immediately following a <vertical-line>, <circumflex>, or <left-parenthesis>

If a <left-brace> is not part of a valid interval expression (see EREs Matching Multiple Characters)
So it would be best to either use:
Code:
FS="[*]*"    # for zero or more asterisks

or
Code:
FS="[*][*]"  # for exactly two asterisks...

Regular Expressions: ERE Special Characters

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NAME
amplot - visualize the behavior of Amanda SYNOPSIS
amplot [ -c ] [ -e ] [ -g ] [ -l ] [ -p ] [ -t T ] amdump_files DESCRIPTION
Amplot reads an amdump output file that Amanda generates each run (e.g. amdump.1) and translates the information into a picture format that may be used to determine how your installation is doing and if any parameters need to be changed. Amplot also prints out amdump lines that it either does not understand or knows to be warning or error lines and a summary of the start, end and total time for each backup image. Amplot is a shell script that executes an awk program (amplot.awk) to scan the amdump output file. It then executes a gnuplot program (amplot.g) to generate the graph. The awk program is written in an enhanced version of awk, such as GNU awk (gawk version 2.15 or later) or nawk. During execution, amplot generates a few temporary files that gnuplot uses. These files are deleted at the end of execution. See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda. OPTIONS
-c Compress amdump_files after plotting. -e Extend the X (time) axis if needed. -g Direct gnuplot output directly to the X11 display (default). -p Direct postscript output to file YYYYMMDD.ps (opposite of -g). -l Generate landscape oriented output. -t T Set the right edge of the plot to be T hours. The amdump_files may be in various compressed formats (compress, gzip, pact, compact). INTERPRETATION
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