Shell Programming and Scripting

I wanted to store the number inside the square bracket between colon( : ) and closing suqre bracket(]) in some variable.

Suppose I have lines like :

Input file :

Code:

 
20140320 00:08:23.846 INFO  [WebContainer : 84] - anything in line
20140320 00:08:23.846 Test  [translate : 589] - Virtual and lab lab anything
20140320 00:08:23.846 Data  [anything : 60] - anything in line
20140320 00:08:23.847 anyting  [anything : 5] - anything in line

I need data in one variable to store all the values : 84, 589,60 and 5

Can anyone please help me

What have you tried so far?

Do you mean you want one long string or an array where you can address each element?

A few more questions:-.... and to re-iterate anbu23's question, What have you tried so far?


Robin

1. I am trying to store this values in one variable like (temp = 84|589|60|5)
Because I have hundreds or thousands of lines and don't know how many enries are there. So I am planning to give seperator (|) to store values.

2. In both SunOS and Linux systeam

3. I am using
#!/bin/ksh

4. no tools directly in Linux and Sunos systeam

Thanks you

What are you going to do with this variable with hundreds of thousands of values separated by vertical bars in it once you get it? If you're going to process each value, you'd probably be much better off processing each value as you find it piped into a loop to process the values. Storing a set of values in a variable as a string that is about a quarter of a megabyte long and then processing that string doesn't seem like a good approach.

And, once more: What have you tried so far? If you refuse to answer this question, it will likely take a lot longer to get a resolution to your problem. We're here to help you learn how to use Linux and UNIX tools; not to write your code for you. And even more importantly, if you show us what you've done, we might get a much better idea of what you're trying to do!

Code:

temp=$( awk -F [\]\[] '{split($2, a, " : "); print a[2]}' ORS='|' input_file)

Thanks a lot SriniShoo

I tried to delete the duplicate entry and sorting using following code, but not getting. need help

Code:

temp=$(awk -F [\]\[] '{split($2, a, " : "); print a[2]}' ORS='|' $INPUTFILE  | sort -u)

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Hi Don Cragun,

I have log file which is mixed of all users, so perticular user log not getting from common log file. I have already captured lines based on userid. But thread I wanted to get in one variable. So here thread value is in between squre brackets after colon ( : ).