Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi... thanks for the suggestions... but they don't work. I'm working on Ubuntu rather than Solaris... wouldn't have thought it would make that much of a difference but it obviously does

steadyonabix: when I use that line, I get zero output
radoulov: when I use that line, I get mumbled junk, looks like the fields are overwriting each other
tip78: when I use that script, I just get loads of errors of type...

Use of uninitialized value $1 in concatenation (.) or string at ./test.pl line 7, <FH> line 1618.
Use of uninitialized value $1 in concatenation (.) or string at ./test.pl line 7, <FH> line 1619.
Use of uninitialized value $1 in concatenation (.) or string at ./test.pl line 7, <FH> line 1620.

Thanks for the suggestions though.. I'll keep looking at it.

huh?
well try this:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

while(<>){
    if(/: (network\d+?)$/){print "\n$1";next}
    /: (\d+?)$/;print ":$1"
}

format: test.pl infile >outfile

Same thing.. except the error is now on line 5

Use of uninitialized value $1 in concatenation (.) or string at ./test.pl line 5, <> line 2622.
Use of uninitialized value $1 in concatenation (.) or string at ./test.pl line 5, <> line 2623.

st@project:~/Documents$ perl -version

This is perl, v5.10.0 built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi

thats should no matter just 2622 & 2623 lines of your file not contain : + space
but outfile should be full anyway

Sorry... I should have made it clearer there maybe... its for all lines in the input file that its erroring on not just 2-3... I was just giving an example of the errors. I'm not quick enough on the ctrl-c to get it for lines 1-100 also.

The output file is completely blank

So your input file seems to be different.
Another one with some assumptions:

Code:

perl -ane'
  print $F[-1], /Failed RADIUS Acc/? $/ : ":"
  ' infile

that's can't be
if your infile have format:

Name: network1
Dropped packets: 15618
Dropped packets for IPv6: 27
Dropped packets: 74
Dropped packets for IPv6: 0
Failed RADIUS Authentication procedures: 0
Failed RADIUS Accounting procedures: 0

it should works fine

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this one works 20 seconds slower :P