Need to clean this up 1

[Kipnep70]

Can somebody clean my command line up a little bit.

The text I want to maniuplate comes from an output of a command:

Master;HP-UX-IA64, HP-UX11.23;6.5.3;NetBackup;6.5;650000;/usr/openv/netbackup/bin;HP-UX B.11.23 ;

6.5.3.1

I'm trying to get it all on one line. I want to keep the ";" as the field delimiter.

like this:

Master;HP-UX-IA64, HP-UX11.23;6.5.3;NetBackup;6.5;650000;/usr/openv/netbackup/bin;HP-UX B.11.23;6.5.3.1

I also don't want any extra spaces between fields.

Here is what I'm running:

./someCommand | sed '/^$/d' | awk -F";" 'BEGIN{ORS=";"}1' | awk -F";" '{print $2 ";" $10}'

If somebody can help me figure out how to shorten this, I'd appreciate it.

 

[feherke]

Hi

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./someCommand | tr -d '\n' | sed 's/ *; */;/g'

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Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[LKBrwnDBA]

Try this:

echo "`./someCommand`"|tr -d "\n"|-cut -d';' -f1,8

PS: You only have 8 fields.


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[feherke]

Hi

./someCommand | awk -vRS= -vORS= '{gsub(/ *; */,";")}1'

Tested with [tt]gawk[/tt] and [tt]mawk[/tt].

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Kipnep70]

Thank you, for whatever reason the last suggestion worked the best. The first two produced an empty line.

 

[feherke]

Hi

The first two produced an empty line.

Hmm... I vaguely remember a discussion in another forum about [tt]tr[/tt]'s -d switch not being standard... Probably your [tt]tr[/tt] implementation does not has it.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/