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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Script requirement Post 302958700 by Don Cragun on Sunday 25th of October 2015 03:47:56 PM
Old 10-25-2015
Is this a homework assignment? Homework assignments must be posted in the Homework & Coursework Forum and must include a completely filled out homework & coursework template.

When asking questions in these forums, it is always a good idea to tell us what operating system and shell you are using.

For questions concerning the handling of dates and times, it is crucial. Date processing on some systems is MUCH simpler than it is on some other systems. What operating system are you using?

What shell are you using? (And, if it is a Korn shell (ksh), what version is it?)

And, if you can't give us an example of what output you're trying to produce from your sample input (and a specific date and time at which the script is run), I don' see how we can help.

I have never seen a script that would be able to send an e-mail message to someone and force the recipient of that e-mail to send that message to a physical printer. I'm guessing that that isn't really what you mean, but that is what your description requires.

There are LOTS of things missing from these requirements that make creating a script for this impossible:
  1. What date applies to lines that don't have dates on them? Is it the current date? Is it the date specified on the first line before it that contains a date? Is it the date specified on the first line after it that contains a date?
  2. What year is associated with dates in column 2? Is it the current year if the date on that line is less than or equal to the current date and the previous year if the date on that line is greater than the current date? Is it always in the current year?
  3. In the requirement: "Now I need a script to add column 2nd and column 3rd entries and compare it with current time( HH:MM format) and if it exceeds more than 15 min then I should get all such column A entries printed in email body.", what does all such column A entries mean? All lines that contain the string contained in column 1? All lines that contain the string contained in column 1 in column 1? Just print column 1 from lines where column 2 + column 3 + 15 minutes is earlier in the day than the current time in the current day? Please give us a clear specification of what you are trying to do!
There are other ambiguities in your requirements. Please write clear requirements and show us examples (in CODE tags) that highlight how those requirements affect the output you're trying to produce.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

amanda-scripts

AMANDA-SCRIPTS(7)						    Miscellanea 						 AMANDA-SCRIPTS(7)

NAME

       amanda-scripts - Configuring and using the Script API

DESCRIPTION

       The Script API is a flexible system for invoking user-supplied scripts at various points in the execution of Amanda. This manual page
       describes the operation and configuration of the API. For help writing Script API scripts, see http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Script_API.

SCRIPTS

       This section lists the scripts included with Amanda, see the individual man page for instructions on using them. For complete How-To
       information, consult the Amanda wiki at http://wiki.zmanda.com.

       o   amzfs-snapshot(8), - create/destroy zfs snapshot.

       o   script-email(8), - send email.

       Script properties work just like application properties: they are insensitive to case, and - (dash) and _ (underscore) may be used
       interchangeably.

SCRIPTS OUTPUT PROPERTY

       A pre-dle-amcheck, pre-dle-estimate or pre-dle-backup executed on the client can output property on stdout that are sent to the
       application. If the output line matches "PROPERTY str1 str2", Amanda sets a property called "str1" by the value of "str2", that property is
       sent to the application.

SEE ALSO

       amanda(8), amanda.conf(5)

       The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/

AUTHORS

       Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau@zmanda.com>
	   Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)

       Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin@zmanda.com>
	   Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)

Amanda 3.3.1							    02/21/2012							 AMANDA-SCRIPTS(7)
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