From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael French" Subject: Scripting question Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:14:15 -0800 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <000901c2c29e$46f751f0$0700a8c0@amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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