How to use cat grep and cut together?


 
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# 1  
Old 02-26-2020
How to use cat grep and cut together?

Hello,

I try to

Code:
#!/bin/bash

for ip in $(seq 1 255  );do
    host 10.11.1.$ip >> nameserver2.txt
done

I'm trying to clean up a file I created with this little batch script.

I have more results with names of servers found and not found.
Host 1.1.11.10.in-addr.arpa. not found: 3 (NXDOMAIN)
Host 2.1.11.10.in-addr.arpa. not found: 3 (NXDOMAIN)

I'm doing a nameserver2.txt grep | grep name which displays only existing servers. Except that I have too much information on each line
5.1.11.10.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer serv1.domain.com
6.1.11.10.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer serv2.domain.com


I would like to have only the 1st character each line (so the last of each IP and the name of the server
I'm making a

Code:
cat nameserver2.txt | grep name | cut -d. -f1

but in this case I only have information on two so in the end I made this order:

Code:
cat nameserver.txt | grep name | cut -d. -f1.6 | cut -d '' -f1.5

which therefore results:

5.arpa srv1
6.arpa srv2

I can't delete .arpa.

How can I do ?
# 2  
Old 02-26-2020
Code:
awk '/name/ {sub("[.].*", "", $1); sub("[.].*", "", $NF); print $1, $NF}' nameserver.txt


Last edited by rdrtx1; 02-26-2020 at 11:00 AM..
# 3  
Old 02-26-2020
Not sure what either file's contents is. For the original file, try



Code:
awk  '! /^Host/ {split ($1, T1, "\."); split ($NF, T2, "\."); print T1[1], T2[1]}' nameserver2.txt

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# 4  
Old 02-26-2020
Thank you for being so quick and fair in your answers


The 1st proposition works perfectly. the second almost except that for the servers not found, there is this:
;; reached
( you can send me a other command line if you want )


in any case to you two

just for knowledge, could it have been done with cat grep and cut?
# 5  
Old 02-26-2020
Code:
grep name nameserver.txt | cut -d" " -f1,5 --output-delimiter="." | cut -d"." -f1,7 --output-delimiter=" "


Last edited by rdrtx1; 02-26-2020 at 11:42 AM..
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# 6  
Old 02-26-2020
There's NO string like "reached" in your samples, nor semicolons. Those don't show up in my host calls, either. Replace ! /^Host/ with /domain/ or /name/ or /pointer/. If that doesn't help, show your input data.


cat is by no means needed in any of your attempts as both grep and cut can open files by themselves, or you can redirect stdin for them.
grepping the first number is quite easy, like

Code:
$ host 82.165.230.17 | grep -o "^[^.]*"
17

, but extracting the remote hostname not so as you don't know what the FQDN looks like. The nearest I get is

Code:
$ host 82.165.230.17 | grep -oE "^[^.]*| [^. ]*\."
17
 bap.

# 7  
Old 02-26-2020
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
There's NO string like "reached" in your samples, nor semicolons. Those don't show up in my host calls, either. Replace ! /^Host/ with /domain/ or /name/ or /pointer/. If that doesn't help, show your input data.


cat is by no means needed in any of your attempts as both grep and cut can open files by themselves, or you can redirect stdin for them.
grepping the first number is quite easy, like

Code:
$ host 82.165.230.17 | grep -o "^[^.]*"
17

, but extracting the remote hostname not so as you don't know what the FQDN looks like. The nearest I get is

Code:
$ host 82.165.230.17 | grep -oE "^[^.]*| [^. ]*\."
17
 bap.

Yes you are right. it's my fault. There somes lines that i didn't see in the original file, like ";; connection timed out; no servers could be reached"


thank you for your explanation and your help.
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