Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello,
sorry for the later answer.
The sed statement is fine (I have checked 2 spaces a lot of time) and it does not hung:


But when I use the awk part it keep hung.
What a shame!

Thanks,
Ant-one

just try to copy/paste this :

Code:

sed 's/^  *//;s/  */ /g;s/  *$//' monitor | awk '/HELPTEXT/{x=$0;getline;do{x=x" "$0;getline}while($0!~/HELP /);sub(/ ["]OPS/,", \"OPS,",x);print x}NF>1{sub($1,$1",",$0)}1'

Same bad result, it hungs!

Thanks,
Ant-one

I am unable to reproduce your problem. I have tested my code on solaris (nawk) and linux (awk) both work fine, i have no idea why your HPUX system is not able to handle it correctly.

By the way, i noticed something strange : when you copy past in your previous post #15, i still see only one space before the '*' , even when i copy past what you have posted, it looks as if you were missing the second required space, whereas you told me you checked you have 2 of them, i don't understand why one seems have been unexpectedly eaten.

Could you please upload your "monitor" file (if it is not formatted the same way than the example you gave, then, maybe some /HELP / occurrence are missing and the while loop then turns into an endless loop ?