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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed Command new Line not working Tried many variations Post 302884269 by mnassiri on Sunday 19th of January 2014 02:16:18 PM
Old 01-19-2014
sed Command new Line not working Tried many variations
Hi

I have assigned an output of a command to $I. I try to print the input and put a new line after occurrence of the hostname which is assigned to $HOST1 ( Example: pwrm16 ) . First of all I need to get rid of the Colon after the host name pwrm16: and make it pwrm16 then I want to print the rest of the line until I hit another hostname. In short I need to get rid of the the colon before the host pwrm16: and then print the line from the string until I get to the next host name . Can someone please help me ? Tried my best and wasted a lot of times


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I want the output be in this format:


Code:
pwrm16: Info: Thu Dec 12 22:20:23 2013 User PWPYNYFWD01 at position 170.198.8.160/net on host 170.198.8.160 using application 257 has been disconnected due to an overflow condition.

pwrm16: Info: Sun Dec 15 21:37:30 2013 User PWPYNYFWD01 at position 170.198.8.160/net on host 170.198.8.160 using application 257 has been disconnected due to an overflow condition.

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I can get rid of the colon by using tr and reassign it ti the variable. However
I just have not able to print anything on a new line. It just not working. I went on internet and tried everything I could find. Just don't seem able to print anything on a new line. Basically all I get is the entire string.

Current command I'm using ( used so many difference variations )
Code:
printf "$I "| sed 's/$HOST1/\n/g'
$HOST1 = pwrm16


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Current output I get is as follow

Code:
pwrm16: Info: Thu Dec 12 22:20:23 2013 User PWPYNYFWD01 at position 170.198.8.160/net on host 170.198.8.160 using application 257 has been disconnected due to an overflow condition. pwrm17: Info: Sun Dec 15 21:37:30 2013 User PWPYNYFWD01 at position 170.198.8.160/net on host 170.198.8.160 using application 257 has been disconnected due to an overflow condition. pwrm18: Info: Wed Dec 18 11:31:43 2013 User PWPYNYFWD01 at position 170.198.8.160/net on host 170.198.8.160 using application 257 has been disconnected due to an overflow condition. pwrm16: Info: Wed Dec 18 14:00:05 2013 User PWPYNYFWD01 at position 170.198.8.160/net on host 170.198.8.160 using application 257 has been disconnected due to an overflow condition. pwrm16: Info: Thu Jan 02 13:51:24 2014 User PWPYNYFWD01 at position 170.198.8.160/net on host 170.198.8.160 using application 257 has been disconnected due to an overflow condition. pwrm19: Info: Fri Jan 17 01:16:26 2014 User PWPYNYFWD01 at position 170.198.8.160/net on host 170.198.8.160 using application 257 has been disconnected due to an overflow condition. pwrm16: Info: Fri Jan 17 03:39:19 2014 User PWPYNYFWD01 at position 170.198.8.160/net on host 170.198.8.160 using application 257 has been disconnected due to an overflow condition.

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Last edited by Scrutinizer; 01-19-2014 at 03:39 PM..
 

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