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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Completey new to scripting, question/help? Post 302945266 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 27th of May 2015 04:58:16 PM
Old 05-27-2015
Yes. When counting fields in awk, there is a huge difference between:
Code:
blahblahblahblah-

and:
Code:
blahblahblahblah -
        or
qtp111659197-5776 -

When you want help from a computer scientist, details about input file format are crucial!

I understood the reason for counting the number of log entries per day for a given user. But, I must be missing the point of counting the number of log entries related to a user on the same date and time. Do you really have multiple log entries for a given user being created in the same millisecond?

Are you really saying that each of the lines shown in your latest sample contains four newline characters? Or (making lots of wild assumptions) are you saying that four lines on your screen are used for each line when you cat the log because each line is somewhere between 360 and 480 characters long (assuming a 120 character line length on your screen) and your terminal is wrapping the output onto 4 screen lines? (Your two sample lines have 430 and 447 characters, respectively, including the terminating newline characters.) Show us the output from the command:
Code:
head -n8 logs/mycompany.log | od -bc

or, if that command fails saying that the -n option isn't recognized:
Code:
head -8 logs/mycompany.log | od -bc

so we have a better chance of understanding what your log file format.
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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN

rcs2log

RCS2LOG(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						RCS2LOG(1)

NAME

     rcs2log -- RCS to ChangeLog generator

SYNOPSIS

     rcs2log [-c changelog] [-h hostname] [-i indent] [-l length] [-R] [-r option] [-t tabwidth] [-u login<TAB>fullname<TAB>mailaddr] [-v]
	     [--help] [--version] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

     The rcs2log utility generates a change log prefix from RCS files (perhaps in the CVS repository) and the ChangeLog (if any).

     The options are as follows:

     -c changelog
	     Output a change log prefix to changelog (default ChangeLog).

     -h hostname
	     Use hostname in change log entries (default current host).

     -i indent
	     Indent change log lines by indent spaces (default 8).

     -l length
	     Try to limit log lines to length characters (default 79).

     -R      If no file(s) are given and RCS is used, recurse through working directory.

     -r option
	     Pass option to subsidiary log command.

     -t tabwidth
	     Tab stops are every tabwidth characters (default 8).

     -u login<TAB>fullname<TAB>mailaddr
	     Assume login has fullname and mailaddr.

     -v      Append RCS revision to file names in log lines.

     --help  Output help.

     --version
	     Output version number.

SEE ALSO

     rcs(1), rcsintro(1), rlog(1), rcsfile(5)

AUTHORS

     Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>

BUGS

     Report bugs to <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>.

BSD
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