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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Searching content of a variable using awk Post 302981171 by Don Cragun on Thursday 8th of September 2016 02:36:32 AM
Old 09-08-2016
Maybe you can't show us the actual value assigned to TOTALRunning, but surely you could show us some representative strings that would emulate its value and:
  1. tell us what operating system you're using,
  2. what shell you're using,
  3. and what output you hope would be produced from those sample assignments.
We need to know:
  1. whether the string that has been assigned starts with a - or contains any \ characters (that will significantly affect the output produced by echo in some shells on some operating systems),
  2. whether we are processing a single line of input containing \n escape sequences or multiple lines of input separated by actual <newline> characters,
  3. whether the value assigned to that variable contains complete lines or the last line assigned to that variable is missing the line terminating <newline> character, and
  4. whether you really want all <newline> characters in the output to be translated to pipe symbols if more than one line is selected for output or you want all but the last line of output to be separated by pipe symbols and the last line of output to be terminated by a <newline> character no matter how many lines are selected for output.
If you aren't willing to give us a clear idea of what your input looks like and what output you're trying to produce, I have no confidence that anything I might suggest has any chance of doing what you want done.
 

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CUT(1)								   User Commands							    CUT(1)

NAME
cut - remove sections from each line of files SYNOPSIS
cut OPTION... [FILE]... DESCRIPTION
Print selected parts of lines from each FILE to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -b, --bytes=LIST select only these bytes -c, --characters=LIST select only these characters -d, --delimiter=DELIM use DELIM instead of TAB for field delimiter -f, --fields=LIST select only these fields; also print any line that contains no delimiter character, unless the -s option is specified -n (ignored) --complement complement the set of selected bytes, characters or fields -s, --only-delimited do not print lines not containing delimiters --output-delimiter=STRING use STRING as the output delimiter the default is to use the input delimiter -z, --zero-terminated line delimiter is NUL, not newline --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit Use one, and only one of -b, -c or -f. Each LIST is made up of one range, or many ranges separated by commas. Selected input is written in the same order that it is read, and is written exactly once. Each range is one of: N N'th byte, character or field, counted from 1 N- from N'th byte, character or field, to end of line N-M from N'th to M'th (included) byte, character or field -M from first to M'th (included) byte, character or field AUTHOR
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