Shell Programming and Scripting

Heyo all,
I'm working on a script to generate some simple web based statistics for a project I'm on. I'm ending up with the following lines that follow the same basic format:

SYSTEM.ADMIN.PERFM.EVENT 0
SYSTEM.ADMIN.QMGR.EVENT 1
SYSTEM.AUTH.DATA.QUEUE 28
SYSTEM.CHANNEL.INITQ 0
SYSTEM.CHANNEL.SYNCQ 0

I'm trying to find a way to take the numbers at the end of each line, and be able to apply a modification to them. For example:
SYSTEM.AUTH.DATA.QUEUE 28 - becomes - SYSTEM.AUTH.DATA.QUEUE <b>28</b> to highlight the number in bold letters on the page.

I'm racking my brain trying to find an efficient way to pull it off. Any suggestions would rule. Thanks as always.

gnu awk:

Code:

awk '$2="<b>"$2"</b>"' old.html >new.html

This works absolutely great, thank you very much for the example.

I'm under the assumption that the $2 is going after the second field? If so, for example, some of my lines are as follows, with an additional number:

SYSTEM.CLUSTER.COMMAND.QUEUE 0 1

I would think I could do: awk '$3="<b>"$3"</b> to highlight that last number as well. I've tried it and it doesn't seem to work as the awk manuals suggests for the third field. Any ideas?

Thanks again.

except the 1st field, rest of fields will be highlight with <b> tag.
try:

Code:

awk '{for(i=2;i<=NF;i++)$i="<b>"$i"</b>";print}'

Weird, going over this piece by piece, it should work, as I believe $3 should, but I think for some reason awk isn't able to read the input data as I'm seeing it. Sort of strange.

Thank you for the extra help.