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When i use the errpt command, i just want to see the timestamp and description only. How do i filter this out.

errpt |awk '{print $2,$6}'

The above commnad works but the description field becomes truncated.

The result for the above command as below

TIMESTAMP DESCRIPTION
0524143109 OPERATOR
0524143109 OPERATOR
0524143109 OPERATOR

The description should actually show operator notification....but thats missing. Since the description can very in length depending on the messages, how do i format it to show the entire length.

Can you paste the o/p of the errpt command? And your expected formatted o/p

How about:

Code:

errpt |awk '{print $2,$6" "$7}'

?

For your ref O/P looks like this

Code:

 
IDENTIFIER TIMESTAMP  T C RESOURCE_NAME  DESCRIPTION
C69F5C9B   0514104409 P S SYSPROC        SOFTWARE PROGRAM ABNORMALLY TERMINATED
C69F5C9B   0512233909 P S SYSPROC        SOFTWARE PROGRAM ABNORMALLY TERMINATED
C69F5C9B   0510234109 P S SYSPROC        SOFTWARE PROGRAM ABNORMALLY TERMINATED
3A30359F   0427232709 T S init           SOFTWARE PROGRAM ERROR
C69F5C9B   0424233509 P S SYSPROC        SOFTWARE PROGRAM ABNORMALLY TERMINATED

This is what i get when i just type errpt

smon2:root:/=> errpt
IDENTIFIER TIMESTAMP T C RESOURCE_NAME DESCRIPTION
AA8AB241 0524143109 T O OPERATOR OPERATOR NOTIFICATION
AA8AB241 0524143109 T O OPERATOR OPERATOR NOTIFICATION
AA8AB241 0524143109 T O OPERATOR OPERATOR NOTIFICATION
smon2:root:/=>


This is what i get when i use the below command instead

smon2:root:/=> errpt | awk '{print $2,$6}'
TIMESTAMP DESCRIPTION
0524143109 OPERATOR
0524143109 OPERATOR
0524143109 OPERATOR
smon2:root:/=>


What i am trying to do is to get errpt to just output the Timestamp and the description only. But as you can see above, it only shows operator and the notification is missing.

I could do this but is there another way around.
Your method above will not solve the issue if another new error occurs which is longer. For example "software program abnormally terminated"
It wont make sense to specify $7 $8 $9 and onwards......there must be an alternative to this.....

Code:

errpt | nawk '{printf("%s%c", $2, OFS); for(i=6;i<=NF;i++) printf("%s%c", $i, (i==NF)?ORS:OFS)}'