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Old 01-20-2010
SH string formatting
Hi all,
my syslog.txt is a file like this:

Code:
Jan 20 10:55:19 cerbero | process1: process1.--: [ID 379539 local1.info] |Info |xyxyxyxyxyxyxx |
Jan 20 10:59:45 cerbero | processlong2 : threadlong1.0 : [ID 379539 local1.info] |Info |ughxueeughxueeuxexuexueuxexuexue |

I need a .sh script to print to screen something like this.
Code:
Jan 20 10:55:19 | process1: ___________process1.--: ___________|Info  |xyxyxyxyxyxyxx |
Jan 20 10:59:45 | processlong2  : _____threadlong1.0 : ________|Info  |ughxueeuxexuexueughxueeuxexuexue |

I'm not able to display here spaces instead of "_" but I need space-padding (i.e. 20 space char)

Thanks to all,
Riccardo
# 2  
Old 01-20-2010
will this work?

Code:
sed -e 's/: /:            /g' -e 's/: .*\]/:            /g' file

# 3  
Old 01-20-2010
something like
Code:
cut syslog.txt -d'|' -f2 | sed 's/\[.*\]//g' | awk -F=":" '{printf ("%15s %15s\n", $1, $2); }'

SmilieIs not complete but works on what needs to be modified in the file.
Last edited by frans; 01-20-2010 at 08:27 AM..
# 4  
Old 01-21-2010
Hi all, thanks for suggestion.

I need to split all the rows using as field separator " " or ":" or "|" or "[" or "]"

For example:
Jan 20 10:55:19 cerbero | process1: process1.--: [ID 379539 local1.info] |Info |xyxyxyxyxyxyxx |

Jan
20
10
55
19
cerbero
process1
process1.--
ID
379539
local1.info
....

By this way I can use awk and printf to create a new custom line...

When I use AKW FS = [ \|\[\]:] I don't have to expected result...

Riccardo
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