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Hi,
i'm new here and i need your help with awk.
i got a file with this pattern of lines for example:

15/08/2012 13:04:03:265|FrameworkManager |INF|inbound 15/08/2012 13:04:03:265 80 120 srv_500 38112345999 ContentDiscovery searchByKeywordPage 0 <param[0] == Cell 0 = [subscriber Id = [ field Name = [ USERNAME ]; value = [ test ]; ]; device Id = [ value = [ Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.6; sr-rs; U8655-1 Build/HuaweiU8655) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1 ]; identifier Type = [ 3 ]; ]; locale = [ en ]; max Results = [ 1000 ]; start Index = [ 0 ]; entity Types = [ Cell 0 = [10] ; ]; media Types = [ local Item = [ ]; ]; portal = [ Telenor Serbia Mobile Portal ]; screen = [ Mobile ]; sorting Parameters = [ Cell 0 = [entity Type = [ 11 ]; sorting Entity Parameters = [ Cell 0 = [order By = [ Number of downloads ]; direction = [ desc ]; ] ; ]; ] ; ]; reserved Attr = [ local Item = [ ]; ]; ALLOWED_ ENTITY_ TYPES_ TO_ = [ Cell 0 = [4] ;Cell 1 = [10] ;Cell 2 = [4] ;Cell 3 = [3] ;Cell 4 = [9] ; ]; promoted Entity Types = [ local Item = [ ]; ]; ] ;Cell 1 = [zdrava ishrana] ;Cell 2 = [value = [ Apps Home ]; entity Type = [ 2 ]; ] ; /> current Node = [ category = [ ID:cat_513 NAME: en - Apps Home CONTENT_PROVIDER:null ]; packages Ids = [ Cell 0 = [value = [ Telenor Serbia Wap Package ]; entity Type = [ 0 ]; ] ; ]; has Special Offer = [ false ]; absolute URLPrefix = [ http://market.dobrestvari.rs:80/DS ]; ]; menu = [ ]; menu Size = [ 0 ]; favorite = [ false ]; sorting Override By Portal Enabled = [ true ];

i marked the words i need to get out from this block as bold... please help me.. :]

If you want to remove those bold words, you can also use sed command.

maybe i wasn't clear enough... sorry about that
i would like to get a text file (or to echo, i don't mind) with the bold values i marked...

Rule ? Which field to show using bold ? Input file size ? If big, then maybe awk is the best tool.
Basic idea something like:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/someposixshell      
# (ksh, bash, dash, ...)
# get terminal bold on/off sequences using tput from terminfo database
bold_on=$(tput smso)
bold_off=$(tput rmso)

# using in the command line
echo a $bold_on b $bold_off c

# or in  the awk

awk -v bold_on="$bold_on" -v bold_off="$bold_off"  '
{ $5=bold_on $5 bold_off  # change some field including bold and bold off
  print $4 ,$5,$6
  # or only print something using bold_on bold_off
  print $2 ,bold_on,$3,bold_off,$6
  printf "some %s somevalue %s something else \n",bold_on,bold_off
} ' input_file

no... this is not what i meant....


look, i have log files, they contain text blocks like the one i attached.
what i would like to do is to take from each block only the words i marked in bold.... i don't need them to be bold on my output or something... just showed you which word i need ....

for example, in the block i attached i would want to see in the output :

15/08/2012 13:04:03:265 38112345999 zdrava ishrana

i hope now it is clear...

thanks

If the lines are all the same length and can be sorted into columns then you could use cut to print only the three columns.

You've given us nothing but that one block of text. If we had a few of them to examine, we might at least be able to make an educated guess about which parts of the text are constant and which change.

Even better, why don't you do that work for us. Analyze your data and then give us the details that we need. Otherwise, how are we supposed to know how to find relevant words? Is your data semicolon delimited? If so, do the words occur in the same field every time? Or if semicolons are an unreliablebe indicator, are there keywords in the text that we can use? For example, if there's a word that never changes and one of the sought after words is always 3 words after that unchanging key, we could use that.

Long story short, you need to put some effort into this as well; take the time to figure out your data and explain it to us. Otherwise, this thread will grow long and frustrating for all involved.

Regards,
Alister