Shell Programming and Scripting

define service{
                   option1           value1
                   option2           value2
                   optionn           valuen
}

define service{
                   option1                value1
                   option2           value2
                   optionn                       valuen
}

#!/bin/sh
#######################################################################
#This is a tool in order to create nagios checks using existing commands and existing contact groups#
#it can run with/without arguments


#######################INITIALIZATION##################################
NAG_PATH=/opt/nms/nagios
SERV_PATH=$NAG_PATH/etc/objects
TMP_CHECK_FILE=/opt/nms/nagios/etc/objects/SERVICES_TEMP.scg

OPTIONS=(name active_checks_enabled passive_checks_enabled parallelize_check obsess_over_service check_freshness notifications_enabled event_handler_enabled flap_detection_enabled failure_prediction_enabled process_perf_data retain_status_information retain_nonstatus_information contact_groups notification_interval is_volatile check_period normal_check_interval retry_check_interval max_check_attempts notification_period notification_options)
OPTION_VALUES=(generici-service 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 technical-support 10 0 24x7 5 15s 3 24x7 "w,u,c,r,f")
echo -e "define service{"
for (( i = 0; i < ${#OPTIONS[*]}; i++ ))
do
{
        echo -e "\t\t${OPTIONS[$i]}\t\t\t${OPTION_VALUES[$i]}"
}
done
echo "}"
exit 0

#!/bin/bash
# ksh will also work

TABS=3
STR="longer-than-8"
((TABS -= (${#STR}/8) ))
[ "${TABS}" -lt 1 ] && TABS=1

while [ "$TABS" -gt 0 ]
do
        TAB="${TAB}"$'\t'
done

echo "${STR}${TAB}"

# Will uniformly space these 20 apart
printf "%20s" a b qweyoiuyuioyuiy hargle fleeb
echo