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# 1  
Old 11-28-2013
Grep word after last occurance of string and display next few lines
Hi,

I wanted to grep string "ERROR" and "WORNING" after last occurrence of String "Starting" only and wanted to display two lines after searched ERROR and WORNING string and one line before. I have following cronjob log file "errorlog" file and I have written the code for same in Unix as below and working fine but not able to implement it in SunSolari.

Please find errorlog file as below :

Code:
it is Starting 
line1
line2
ERROR
line3
line4

it is Starting
line5
ERROR
line6
line7

it is Starting
line8
WARNING
line8.8
line8.9
line9
ERROR
line10
line11

Expected output something like as follow :

Code:
line8
WARNING
line8.8

line9
ERROR
line10

Following code is working in UNIX/LINUX but not working in SunSolari

Code:
ERROR="ERROR:"
WARNING="WARNING" 
 ERR=$ERROR"\|"$WARNING

awk  '/Starting/{if(b) exit; else b=1}1' $filename | grep -A3 -in "$ERR"

Please advise Smilie
Last edited by Don Cragun; 11-30-2013 at 11:53 PM.. Reason: Remove extraneous font and size tags.
# 2  
Old 11-29-2013
Try:
Code:
nawk '/Starting/ { N=0 } {L[++N]=$0 } END { for(X=1; (X<=N)&&(X <= 3); X++) print L[X] }' inputfile

It keeps a list of lines in the array L, and every time it encounters 'Started', resets the count to zero and starts over. Adjust the <= 3 to taste.
Last edited by Corona688; 11-29-2013 at 12:01 PM..
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nes
# 3  
Old 11-29-2013
Hi.
Quote:
Originally Posted by nes
... grep string "ERROR" and "WORNING" after last occurrence of String "Starting" only and wanted to display two lines after searched ERROR and WORNING string and one line before ...
Using part of Corona688's solution:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/env bash

# @(#) s2       Demonstrate extraction of lines before and after match.

if uname -a | grep -i solaris 
then
  echo " ( Note -using ggrep )"
  G=/usr/sfw/bin/ggrep
else
  echo " ( Note -using grep )"
  G=grep
fi

# Utility functions: print-as-echo, print-line-with-visual-space, debug.
# export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
pe() { for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done; printf "\n"; }
pl() { pe;pe "-----" ;pe "$*"; }
db() { ( printf " db, ";for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done;printf "\n" ) >&2 ; }
db() { : ; }
C=$HOME/bin/context && [ -f $C ] && $C nawk $G

FILE=${1-data1}

pl " Input data file $FILE:"
cat $FILE

pl " Expected output:"
cat expected-output.txt

pl " Results:"
nawk '/Starting/ { N=0 } {L[++N]=$0 } END { for(X=1; (X<=N); X++) print L[X] }' $FILE |
$G -E -A2 -B1 -i 'error|warning' 

exit 0

producing:
Code:
$ ./s2
SunOS vm-solaris 5.10 Generic_137138-09 i86pc i386 i86pc
 ( Note -using ggrep )

Environment: LC_ALL = POSIX, LANG = POSIX
(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
OS, ker|rel, machine: SunOS, 5.10, i86pc
Distribution        : Solaris 10 10/08 s10x_u6wos_07b X86
bash GNU bash 3.00.16
nawk - ( /usr/bin/nawk, Jan 8 2007 )
/usr/sfw/bin/ggrep grep (GNU grep) 2.5

-----
 Input data file data1:
it is Starting 
line1
line2
ERROR
line3
line4

it is Starting
line5
ERROR
line6
line7

it is Starting
line8
WARNING
line8.8
line8.9
line9
ERROR
line10
line11

-----
 Expected output:
line8
WARNING
line8.8

line9
ERROR
line10

-----
 Results:
line8
WARNING
line8.8
line8.9
line9
ERROR
line10
line11

See man pages for details.

Best wishes ... cheers, drl
Last edited by drl; 12-05-2013 at 08:44 AM.. Reason: Typo: corrected nawk line
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nes
# 4  
Old 11-29-2013
Try also:
Code:
tac file | awk '{T[NR%3]=$0} /ERROR|WARNING/ {L=NR+1; print T[(NR+1)%3];print T[(NR+2)%3]; print; next} NR<=L; /Starting/ {exit}'  |tac
line8
WARNING
line8.8
line8.9
line9
ERROR
line10
line11

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nes
# 5  
Old 11-30-2013
I have given example of file, but not sure how many time "Starting" string is present in file.
I want only from last occurrence of string("Starting")to end of file where file has "ERROR" or "EXCEPTION".

Thanks Smilie
# 6  
Old 12-01-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by nes
Hi,

I wanted to grep string "ERROR" and "WORNING" after last occurrence of String "Starting" only and wanted to display two lines after searched ERROR and WORNING string and one line before. I have following cronjob log file "errorlog" file and I have written the code for same in Unix as below and working fine but not able to implement it in SunSolari.

Please find errorlog file as below :

Code:
it is Starting 
line1
line2
ERROR
line3
line4

it is Starting
line5
ERROR
line6
line7

it is Starting
line8
WARNING
line8.8
line8.9
line9
ERROR
line10
line11

Expected output something like as follow :

Code:
line8
WARNING
line8.8

line9
ERROR
line10

Following code is working in UNIX/LINUX but not working in SunSolari

Code:
ERROR="ERROR:"
WARNING="WARNING" 
 ERR=$ERROR"\|"$WARNING

awk  '/Starting/{if(b) exit; else b=1}1' $filename | grep -A3 -in "$ERR"

Please advise Smilie
Could you please give me one example of a UNIX/LINUX system where the above sequence of commands produces the expected output you showed us above when given the sample errorlog file you provided above as input?

I would expect the above code to display a subset of the text starting with the 1st line of the file and ending on the line before the 2nd line in the file that contains the string "Starting"; not a subset of the text starting with the last occurrence of the string "Starting" and ending at the end of the file.
# 7  
Old 12-05-2013
Thanks for correction "Don Cragun",

Following code displays ERROR and WARNING from first 'Starting' occurance to second.

But I wanted from last to end of file in UNIX/LINUX also to solve this problem

Code:
ERROR="ERROR:"
WARNING="WARNING" 
 ERR=$ERROR"\|"$WARNING

awk  '/Starting/{if(b) exit; else b=1}1' $filename | grep -A3 -in "$ERR"

Please guide me.
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