Re: Scripting question

[urgrue <urgrue@tumsan.fi>]

everyone is gonna tell you to learn a "real" scripting language, but i 
wont.
yeah, shell scripts are slow and ugly but, after all, it works, and its 
easier than blowing your nose.
anyway i dont have the time to learn perl, so there.

i think it would be easiest to first combine the two files nodeinfo.txt 
and mbtotals.txt into one with three columns, using for example any 
spreadsheet program.
then you can just do something like:
while read LINE
do
NODES=`echo $LINE | awk '{print $1}'`
CUSTOMER=`echo $LINE | awk '{print $2}'`
TOTAL=`echo $LINE | awk '{print $3}'`
echo -e $NODES\t$CUSTOMER\t$TOTAL >> tmpfile
done < nodeinfo.txt

its much easier to work with one file only. otherwise, all i can think 
of is using sed/awk somehow. maybe like:
while read LINE
do
NODES=as above
CUSTOMER=as above
WHAT_LINE_ARE_WE_ON=1
TOTALS=<use awk or sed to print the Nth line of mbtotals.txt, ie the 
$WHAT_LINE_ARE_WE_ONth line>
add one to $WHAT...
echo all to a file >> tmpfile
done < nodeinfo.txt



>     I have a couple of scripts that I am working on that pull data
> from an
> application and print a human readable report from the data.  I have
> all of
> the data pulled and stored in variables, but I am stumped on how to
> put in
> all in one file.  I hope that I can clearly explain this, here goes.
> 
>     For one script, I have three pieces of info to report: node name,
> customer name, and total data stored.  The first two bits of data are
> getting pulled out together and stored in one file.  The third bit is
> being
> calculated and then stored in a second file.  I then get the data in
> like
> this:
> 
> NODES=`cat nodeinfo.txt | awk '{print $1}'`
> CUSTOMER=`cat nodeinfo.txt | awk '{print $2}'`
> MBTOTALS=`cat mbtotals.txt`
> 
> I then need to print out a report like:
> 
> Nodes        Customer        MB
> ----------------------------------
> node1           customer1        20.0
> 
> How can I do this?  I can't seem to figure out how to do it with one
> for
> loop.
> 
>     I have another little script I am working on to report restore
> data and
> it has one temp file holding all of the info I need and is greping out
> about
> 10 different pieces of data I need before overwriting the temp file
> with the
> info on the next node.  The problem I have run into is that some of
> the
> restores have duplicate data in them so I am going to have to rewrite
> the
> report to put the data in variables and then loop through them to
> generate a
> report just like the one above, except with more variables so you can
> see
> why I am trying to figure out how to do this as cleanly as possible.
> Maybe
> I am starting off all wrong so feel free to redirect me.  Also, I am
> using
> Korn shell to do this (my only option).
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Michael French
> 
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