Hi,

I am pretty new to shell scripting so this problem might be trivial,
but I can't for the life of me figure it out or find any resources
online that does what I want.

Basically I am grepping from a large log file as I am only interested
in certain entries.

The code I am using is the following:

MAILBODY=`grep -n "XX" ${LOGFILE}`
SUBJECT="Logg informasjon"

if [ "$MAILBODY" != '' ] ; then

echo $MAILBODY | ${MAILPROGRAM} -s "${SUBJECT}" ${MOTTAKER}
fi

Just basically grepping the line with token XX then if data was found i
send this via email.

My problem is first of all, I do not want the token to be printed (not
critical) secondly and most importantly I want each entry to be printed
on separate lines as in adding a line break at the end of each result,
because as it is it just tags all the lines after each other making it
hopeless to use.


Best Regards
Mats Karstad

On 2006-08-25, mats.karstad@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am pretty new to shell scripting so this problem might be trivial,
> but I can't for the life of me figure it out or find any resources
> online that does what I want.
>
> Basically I am grepping from a large log file as I am only interested
> in certain entries.
>
> The code I am using is the following:
>
> MAILBODY=`grep -n "XX" ${LOGFILE}`
> SUBJECT="Logg informasjon"
>
> if [ "$MAILBODY" != '' ] ; then
>
> echo $MAILBODY | ${MAILPROGRAM} -s "${SUBJECT}" ${MOTTAKER}
> fi
>
> Just basically grepping the line with token XX then if data was found i
> send this via email.
>
> My problem is first of all, I do not want the token to be printed (not
> critical) secondly and most importantly I want each entry to be printed
> on separate lines as in adding a line break at the end of each result,
> because as it is it just tags all the lines after each other making it
> hopeless to use.

Quote your variable:

echo "$MAILBODY" | ${MAILPROGRAM} -s "${SUBJECT}" ${MOTTAKER}


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Chris F.A. Johnson, author <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
===== My code in this post, if any, assumes the POSIX locale
===== and is released under the GNU General Public Licence

That did it!

I love the simple solutions, thank you very much for the solution and
the speedy reply :-)

-Mats

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On 2006-08-25, mats.karstad@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am pretty new to shell scripting so this problem might be trivial,
> > but I can't for the life of me figure it out or find any resources
> > online that does what I want.
> >
> > Basically I am grepping from a large log file as I am only interested
> > in certain entries.
> >
> > The code I am using is the following:
> >
> > MAILBODY=`grep -n "XX" ${LOGFILE}`
> > SUBJECT="Logg informasjon"
> >
> > if [ "$MAILBODY" != '' ] ; then
> >
> > echo $MAILBODY | ${MAILPROGRAM} -s "${SUBJECT}" ${MOTTAKER}
> > fi
> >
> > Just basically grepping the line with token XX then if data was found i
> > send this via email.
> >
> > My problem is first of all, I do not want the token to be printed (not
> > critical) secondly and most importantly I want each entry to be printed
> > on separate lines as in adding a line break at the end of each result,
> > because as it is it just tags all the lines after each other making it
> > hopeless to use.
>
> Quote your variable:
>
> echo "$MAILBODY" | ${MAILPROGRAM} -s "${SUBJECT}" ${MOTTAKER}
>
>
> --
> Chris F.A. Johnson, author <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
> Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
> ===== My code in this post, if any, assumes the POSIX locale
> ===== and is released under the GNU General Public Licence

On 25 Aug 2006 00:52:22 -0700, mats.karstad@gmail.com
<mats.karstad@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> MAILBODY=`grep -n "XX" ${LOGFILE}`
> SUBJECT="Logg informasjon"
>
> if [ "$MAILBODY" != '' ] ; then
>
> echo $MAILBODY | ${MAILPROGRAM} -s "${SUBJECT}" ${MOTTAKER}
> fi
>
> Just basically grepping the line with token XX then if data was found i
> send this via email.
>
> My problem is first of all, I do not want the token to be printed (not
> critical)
MAILBODY=`grep -n "XX" ${LOGFILE} | sed 's/XX//g'`
MAILBODY=`awk '/XX/{gsub(/XX/,"")rint NR ":" $0}'`

> secondly and most importantly I want each entry to be printed
> on separate lines as in adding a line break at the end of each result,
> because as it is it just tags all the lines after each other making it
> hopeless to use.
>
echo "$MAILBODY"



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