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You rock!!

Three ways to do this ...one record based ( record as defined by input file ) and two essentially line/field based.

Thanks again!

Bub

Nice solutions but how do they work?
awk -F: '/=/ { print x } NF > 2 { printf "%s", $0; next } { printf "%s", $2 }' infile
I get the NF > 2 { ...etc and after but why does the /=/ {print x}
work?...

Thanks Radoulov ~

However, it's still printing the first record incorrectly. Here's what I need:
Tue Aug 11 20:17:01 PDT 2009 295 42.1428
Tue Aug 18 20:17:01 PDT 2009 294 42.0000 ...

I want to transform a log file into input for a database.

Here's the log file:
Tue Aug 4 20:17:01 PDT 2009
Wireless users: 339
Daily Average: 48.4285
=
Tue Aug 11 20:17:01 PDT 2009
Wireless...

[UPDATE - SOLVED - See updates at bottom.]

Thanks John, however, I still get the blank line on line one.
Here's the output ( excerpt of top ) via:
cat -n test.sh | headOutput:

1
...

Thanks for the replies. I tried adding dnl both in the macro and in the file and I still end up with one blank line at the top.

However, the resulting scripts work and if it really bothers me I...

Thanks, I think I'm getting close -- down to one blank line.

I found references to this idiosyncrasy online.

Bub

This does help -- thanks. Where is this documented? I've been looking and haven't seen any examples where the defines were ended this way. I assume you mean:

define(`START_SCRIPT',`#!/bin/bash...

I have used m4 in the past to generate source code where aesthetics and space were of no consequence [ provided it worked ]. Now I am using it to generate script and program templates [ in an effort...

It doesn't matter what extension you use, but vim recognizes
'.m4'. So, for the purposes of getting syntax highlighting, I'd use the extension 'm4'.

Not sure what you mean by plugins, unless you...

I understand the command-substitution construct $(), but was thrown by the "cat". It makes perfect sense now that I've had a chance to think about it. I was not connecting execution of the script...

As it turns out ...yes! It works ...but how? I "get" the $() and quoting construct but am wondering how this executes.
This isn't documented anywhere I looked. EDIT: Yes, I know that ssh executes...

That'd work except there's a lot of machines to go through.

I wanted to do something to the effect:
for i in {10..55};do ssh root@10.10.18.$i < hours.sh;done

I don't exactly know what the...

How would I get the script to catch my keyboard input with read when run remotely?

I've tried the '-t' and '-T' options to ssh with no success.

This script is supposed to display a file ( crontab ), ask the user if they wish to update the file, then it goes through an update routine.

#!/bin/bash
FILE=/etc/crontab

tail -5 $FILE
...

Some of the locations have two words ...east this, or grand that, blah-blah
city. The tab is essential. This is one reason I was asking about the possibilities for sourcing the file with some...

Awesome, thanks!

Like this?

while IFS=$'\t' read -r b c

Is there a better way to indicate the value of IFS? I had
issues simply going:

IFS=\t

Thanks!

Bub

PS: It's working ...just wondering about...

Context:
I have a random pin number generator script that reads a tab-delimited file containing a location and a count:

eg.,
mansfield 30
tokyo 15
smithville 34It produces...

vgersh99 ~

The input file looks like:
dador,173323,bpt,jsp,39030013338878,1
dador,173323,brew,jsp,39030013338860,b
dador,173323,brew,jsp,39030013339447,b
dador,173323,brew,jsp,39030013339538,b...

@vgersh99

Thanks, that works!

Is it possible to add other arrays in the same statement, using the unique
field like before?

Sample output ( headings added to clarify objective ):...

This is very close! This is what I used:
BEGIN {
FS=","
}
{
c2[$2]=(c2[$2])?c2[$2] FS $3:$3
}
END {
for (i in c2)
printf("<tr>\n<td>%s</td><td>%s</td>\n</tr>\n", i, c2[i])
}And I...

This is what I've got and it seems to work.

ELEMENTS2=${#ARRAY2
}

cols=5
rows=$((ELEMENTS2/cols+1))

printf "Rows = $rows\n"
printf "Elements = $ELEMENTS2\n"

for (( row=1; row<=rows;...

Rock and Roll!!!

Thanks tukuyomi!

Bub

Thanks for your response!

While each row should contain a defined number of fields/elements,
the actual amount of rows is dependent on the length of the array.

So I'm thinking rows would need...