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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Last line in while do function being ignored Post 303016320 by Hvieira on Tuesday 24th of April 2018 01:22:32 PM
Old 04-24-2018
Hi there! Thanks for replying.

pbpaste is a native command of MacOS (testing on a Mac at the moment). It pastes the contents you have in the clipboard.

If you have X, you can use this command instead

Code:
alias pbpaste='xsel --clipboard --output'

My input file is Unix style. I really don't know why this behavior is happening

EDIT: So I found out the script works correctly if the Description example has more than one line. However, if it's only one line, it doesn't. Is there any logic that I'm missing here?

Description field is not stored as a variable

Quote:
Your name: Test User
Email: test.usertestingthisstuff.com
Subject: Help
Description: Describe me in 2 words
Description field is stored as a variable successfully
Quote:
Your name: Rob King-Magee
Email: test.usertestingthisstuff.com
Subject: Help
Description: Describe me in 2 wordsDescribe me in 2 wordsDescribe me in 2 wordsDescribe me in 2 wordsDescribe me in 2 wordsDescribe me in 2 wordsDescribe me in 2 wordsDescribe me in 2 wordsDescribe me in 2 wordsDescribe me in 2 wordsDescribe me in 2 words
Last edited by rbatte1; 04-25-2018 at 10:54 AM.. Reason: Added CODE tags
 

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flow-rptfmt

flow-rptfmt(1)						      General Commands Manual						    flow-rptfmt(1)

NAME

       flow-rptfmt -- Format the output of flow-report in ASCII or HTML

SYNOPSIS

       flow-rptfmt [-hHnp]  [-a alarm_time]  [-f format]  [-F fields]  [-m max_lines]  [-s sort_field]

DESCRIPTION

       The  flow-rptfmt  utility processes the CSV output of flow-report into formatted ASCII or HTML.	Sorting, maximum display lines, field fil-
       ter, header display, and name substitution are supported during post processing.  Additionally an alarm can be set for use in  CGI  scripts
       to limit the CPU time of formatting.

OPTIONS

       -a alarm_time
		 Exit after alarm_time seconds.

       -f ascii|html
		 Set output format.  Defaults to ASCII.

       -F display_fields
		 Limit columns to display_fields

       -h	 Help.

       -H	 Display header information.

       -m max_lines
		 Limit rows to max_lines.

       -n	 Enable symbol table lookups.

       -p	 Display in percent total form.

       -s sort_field
		 Sort on sort_field.  Prepend with + for ascending, - for descending sort.

EXAMPLES

       Format  the  output  of	daily-ip-protocol.txt  in  ASCII.  Display the ip-protocol and octets fields in percent total format with symbols.
       Limit output to top 5 sorted by octets.

	   cat daily-ip-protocol.txt | flow-rptfmt -fascii -Fip-protocol,octets -p -n -m5

BUGS

       Sorting could be faster.  Percent totals could be faster.  May not work with flow-report prior to 0.68.

AUTHOR

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SEE ALSO

       flow-tools(1)

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