Awk with if statements

[Blivo]

Ok I want to awk certain parts of a file based on whether or not they have certain words. I'll post an example of my file.

**********************
Server1
**********************

Current System Uptime " 6 day(s), 21 hour(s), 13 minute(s), 35 second(s)"


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Since 9/22/2004

Total Reboots 12
Mean Time Between Reboots 16.51 days
Total Bluescreens 0


Notes
There is insufficient data in the event log to calculate
system availability. Please see UPTIME /help for more detail.

**********************
Server2
**********************

Current System Uptime " 254 day(s), 0 hour(s), 32 minute(s), 9 second(s)"


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Since 4/14/2003

System Availability 99.97%
Total Uptime 724d 21h 51m 14s
Total Downtime 0d 4h 24m 59s
Total Reboots 22
Mean Time Between Reboots 32.96 days
Total Bluescreens 0

That's part of my file. First I awk between Server1 and Blue screens to return all those lines and put them in a file server1.txt. This is where I'm having the trouble. I need it to first do a command like:

awk '/Availability/,/Bluescreens/' server1.txt

and if it doesn't find Availability it will do this:

awk '/Reboots/,/Bluescreens/' server1.txt

I'm sorry if this is a simple question I just started using unix utilities and am trying to teach myself.

Thanks

 

[dchoulette]

awk '/Availability|Reboots/,/Bluescreens/'

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Denis

 

[Blivo]

Oh, I don't know if it matters but I'm doing all of this in DOS.

When I type:

awk '/Availability|Reboots/,/Bluescreens/' file.txt

I get an error message saying:

'Reboots' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
awk : not enough arugments

Any suggestions?

 

[Donatzsky]

Try
awk "/Availability|Reboots/,/Bluescreens/" file.txt
The trick is the quoting - Windows doesn't understand ''.
The reason you get that error message is that | is used for redirecting output from one command to another, so what Windows sees is:
Run "awk '/Availability" and send result to "Reboots/,/Bluescreens/' file.txt"
The same goes for < and > - without enclosing them in "" Windows will interpret them as a redirection from/to a file.

- Nis Donatzsky