Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Team,

Could someone please help me on this ..

While doing my day to day activity I use to delete manually the repeated ones ..

For example 05 & 06 are my hosts.. Now I need to print only 05 and 06, 05-06 is not required.

This is how I generate my report daily ..

Code:

DBG-STG1-05
DBG-STG1-05-06
DBG-STG1-06

I need it as

Code:

DBG-STG1-05
DBG-STG1-06

Here are the list of hosts..

My Current o/p

Code:

DBG-STG1-05
DBG-STG1-05-06
DBG-STG1-06
LNX-DEV-113
LNX-DEV-114
LNX-DEV-115
LNX-DEV-113-114-115
LNX-STG-322
LNX-STG-322-323
LNX-STG-322
SAN-MGR2
DMZ-001-L
DMZ-002-L
DMZ-001-L-002-L

Required o/p

Code:

DBG-STG1-05
DBG-STG1-06
LNX-DEV-113
LNX-DEV-114
LNX-DEV-115
LNX-STG-322
LNX-STG-322
SAN-MGR2
DMZ-001-L
DMZ-002-L

Thanks in advance ..

-Nalla

I'm lost.

You say: This is how I generate my report daily ..

Code:

DBG-STG1-05
DBG-STG1-05-06
DBG-STG1-06

But I don't see anything here that could be used to generate a report??? All I see are three strings on separate lines.

Are these the names of files in a directory? Are these strings contained in another file?

You say: While doing my day to day activity I use to delete manually the repeated ones ..
What does this mean???
Do you want to remove all files in the current directory that have three or more hyphens in their name? Do you want to remove every file in the current directory that has another filename in the same directory that is an initial substring of that name? Do you want to remove every line in a file if that line has three or more hyphens in the line? Do you want to remove every line from a file for which some other line is an initial substring of that line? (If this is what you're trying to do, is your input file sorted?) Do you want to print the lines in a file that have fewer than three hyphens (without changing the contents of the file)? Do you to print the lines in a file that do not have any other line in the file that is an initial substring of that line (without changing the contents of the file)? (If this is what you're trying to do, is you input file sorted?)

Hi Don,

Sorry of the confusion..

The input specified by me will be in a single file.

Strings in the file ..

Code:

LNX-DEV-113
LNX-DEV-114
LNX-DEV-115
LNX-DEV-113-114-115

How to sort\grep as below

Code:

LNX-DEV-113
LNX-DEV-114
LNX-DEV-115

Need to remove the strings which are having hyphens 3 or more in the file .

Thanks in advance ..

-Nalla

Try:

Code:

grep -v '.*-.*-.*-.*' file

test this

Code:

awk -F- '{if (NF<4)print}' yourFile

On most systems, grep is smaller (and faster) than awk for something like this. But, if you want to use awk, it can be simplified to:

Code:

awk -F- 'NF<4' yourFile

But, if you're using a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk, /usr/xpg6/bin/awk, or nawk.