Assuming GNU tail you can either list lines from the end (--lines=1234) or from the beginning (--lines=+1234) of the file. Thus listing the full file could be done with
In your script you could have a variable nlines which could contain the value 100000, 200000 or +1 and could be used thus:
The best way to get the values into your script would be to use getopts as in
The log files could be added to the end of the argument list or with more option switches using getopts (use the bash help facility for more info).
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I am trying to retain line number for a text document.. usually we get line numbers in VI using :set nu , but I want to permanently store them. It's a 4000 lines of text and I want grep/search it for a list of words/fields stored in a different... (2 Replies)
cat dailyreports | grep "Important list" | awk -F":" '{print $2}' | awk -F" " '{print $1}'
hey guys, after running the above combination of cat and awk, i get the below output:
3
4
2
9
now, i need to add these numbers up all in one line. i dont know what to add to that cat and awk one... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I am too daft to remember how to properly feed numbers that I've extracted with awk(1) to tail(1).
The actual question is probably a lot more simple than the context, but let me give you the context anyway:
I've just received some email that was sent with MS Outlook and arrived in... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I am writing a shell script that checks catalina logs on a production system and mails me if it detects errors.
It greps the logs for known errors which i have defined as variables.
The problem is the logs are huge, approx 30,000 before they rotate.
So I am forced to use grep instead... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a script which basically watches a log file for new lines using tail, then takes action based on what is logged. I wrote a script to do this for me and its working great, my only problem is that once per week, this log file is archived to another directory, and a new log is created.... (4 Replies)
Hello All,
I have 3 types of files. The names of which starts with P,I,M
like P*********
D*********
M*********
now I need to do some operations witht hese files..
so
if file name starts with P or p
then
do the operation for P file...
fi
else (20 Replies)
file A
E969K
D223L
E400L
E34L
file B
predicted 3
1 250
251 500
501 1000
The output should be
E969K 501 1000
D223L 1 250
E400L 251 500
E34L 1 250
I tried in this way (1 Reply)
Trying to use code that I found to send only new lines out of a log file by doing:
while :; do
temp=$(tail -1 logfile.out)
awk "/$last/{p=1}p" logfile.out #pipe this to log analyzer program
last="$temp"
sleep 10
done
Script works fine when logfile is basic text, but when it contains... (2 Replies)
Hello,
How to tail -f multi logfile from multi path in 1 shell script.
File & Path
/usr/home/localmode/mode110l/log/logic/number110/digit110_digit110m4_2013050210.txt
/usr/home/localmode/mode103l/log/logic/number103/digit103_digit103m4_2013050210.txt... (4 Replies)
Hi all;
Here is my file:
V1.3=4
V1.4=5
V1.1=3
V1.2=6
V1.3=6
Please, can you help me to write a script shell that counts the sum of values in my file (4+5+3+6+6) ?
Thank you so much for help.
Kind regards. (3 Replies)