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# 8  
Old 09-08-2016
If an external script is creating the contents of the variable TOTALRunning, why confuse all of us with this variable? Why not just pipe the output of that external script to your awk script? (But, we still need to know the format of the output that external script produces and a clear specification of the output you want to produce.)
# 9  
Old 09-08-2016
the content of TOTALRunning looks something like this:

Code:
TOTALRunning='HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWRunPath.31050 = STRING: "/usr/bin/mod_gearman_worker"
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWRunPath.31213 = STRING: "/usr/bin/mod_gearman_worker"
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWRunPath.31214 = STRING: "/usr/bin/mod_gearman_worker"
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWRunPath.31237 = STRING: "/usr/bin/mod_gearman_worker"
'


Sorry for the inconvenience guys.

The thing is, i have two variables i have to work with. The first is the TOTALRunning, which i have pasted. The combined command i'm looking for searches the TOTALRunning variable and gets a particular number or numbers, based on the amount of lines found containing the content of PROCSEARCH.

Then, it uses the number(s) that were retrieved from the parsing the TOTALRunning variable, to search another variable, which contains this:

Code:
TOTALRunPerfMem='HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWRunPerfMem.30694 = INTEGER: 3008 KBytes
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWRunPerfMem.31213 = INTEGER: 3020 KBytes
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWRunPerfMem.31311 = INTEGER: 3020 KBytes
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWRunPerfMem.31312 = INTEGER: 3020 KBytes'

the command i use on the second variable this:

Code:
echo "${TOTALRunPerfMem}" | awk '/HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWRunPerfMem.('${NOIPID}') / && !/No Such Instance currently exists at this OID/ {print $4}'

if all of this can be done combined into one command, that would be great
Last edited by SkySmart; 09-08-2016 at 08:37 AM..
# 10  
Old 09-08-2016
WHY are you making all of us guess WHAT you want, and how? After minutes of reasoning and analysing your posts, I infer you want a list of sort of PIDs from the first variable, separated by an alternation operator for the regex match in the second string, of which you then print a Kbyte count, here 3008 or 3020.
Wouldn't it be easier for all of us if you describe your problem in such a simple manner?
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