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# 1  
Old 12-01-2011
Match and variable length string
Hello all,

source file looks like this:

Code:
cat toto.txt
NAME)
   VAR1=tata
   OPT4=toto
   USER=blabla
   TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/Hongkong
   OTHEROPT=something
   ;;
NAME2)
   VAR1=tata
   OPT4=toto
   USER=blabla
   TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/Hongkong
   SOMETHING=else
   ONEMORE=whynot
   ;;

I'm trying to get the name and timezone (TZ) info:

Code:
awk 'BEGIN { RS = ";;" } /TZ\=/  {print substr($1,1,length($1)-1) ":" substr($0,(match($0,/TZ.*/)),31)}' /etc/configtoto

The above code works BUT it wouldn't if there was a different value in TZ (right now its the same in all NAME but it might change)

I'm trying to find out a different way to get the TZ value. That 31 bothers me.

Thanks.
# 2  
Old 12-01-2011
Are you going to be filtering on specific record (NAME2) values? As in, why are you setting RS?

Otherwise, you could just do:
Code:
awk -F= '/TZ/ {print $2}' toto.txt

This might work with RS:
Code:
 awk 'BEGIN { RS=";;"; FS="[)= ]" } /TZ/ { for (i=1;i<NF;i++) { if ($i ~ /TZ$/) { print $(i+1) }}}' toto.txt

# 3  
Old 12-01-2011
Another try

Code:
awk -F= '/)/ { name=$0;sub(/.$/,"",name) } /TZ=/ { print name, $2}' /etc/configtoto

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# 4  
Old 12-01-2011
I'm setting RS because there is other text, config, etc in that file not only the part i have included. Setting RS clears me out of those.

The output of course should be like this:

Code:
NAME:TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/hongkong
NAME2:TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/hongkong
NAME3:TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/hongkong
NAME4:TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/hongkong

Main problem would be to have a TZ value of lets say /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT since the length is hardcoded.
# 5  
Old 12-01-2011
Better if you show the complete part ( at least just format, actual values changed)
# 6  
Old 12-01-2011
Try:
Code:
awk 'BEGIN { RS=";;"; FS="[)= ]" } /TZ/ { printf ("%s:", $1); for (i=2;i<=NF;i++) { if ($i ~ /^TZ$/) { printf ("TZ=%s\n", $(i+1)); }}}' toto.txt

Last edited by CarloM; 12-01-2011 at 11:14 AM..
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