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Old 05-30-2009
tab char appearing as single space?
I'm trying to run a script which will ssh to several other servers (All Solaris 10) and execute a sar -f command to get each server's CPU usage for a given hour.

It kinda works OK but I just can't figure out how to separate the returned fields with a Tab character. I've done lots of searching on the net but everything I've tried results in my output being only space delimited.

Here's what I've got ....
Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
#set -x
 
day=`date +%d`
hour=`date +%H`
 
if [ $hour -eq 00 ]
then
        comhour=23
        day=`(TZ=GMT+24;date +%d)`
else
        comhour=`expr $hour - 1`
 
        if [ $comhour -le 9 ]
        then
                comhour=`print 0`$comhour
        fi
fi
 
for Server in `cat server.list`
do
        print `ssh $Server "sar -f /var/adm/sa/sa$day | grep ^$comhour" 2>/dev/null | grep -v [a-z] | awk 'BEGIN { OFS="\t" } {print 100-$5"%",$1 }' | sort -n 
| tail -1`  $Server 
done

The output is like this ....

Code:
15% 22:55:00 ss44par01
7% 22:05:00 ss44par02
2% 22:35:00 ss44par03
22% 22:10:00 ss44par04
3% 22:10:00 ss44par05

but I want it like this ...
Code:
15%    22:55:00    ss44par01
7%     22:05:00    ss44par02
2%     22:35:00    ss44par03
22%    22:10:00    ss44par04
3%     22:10:00    ss44par05

Can anyone see where I'm going wrong?


Thanks very much.

--
Jake
# 2  
Old 05-31-2009
Did I ask the question wrongly somehow? Or just nobody knows the answer?
# 3  
Old 06-02-2009
One simple way would be:
( ./script )| tr -s " " "<press tab here>"
 
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