awk or something else

[Igor Sovin]

Thanks guys!
Now I see that all solutions work.
And one more question.
How can I get only SessionID of EP2 as output?

[Hein van den Heuvel]

Hmm, doesn't Sandman's solution do just that?

Slightly differently written:

#awk '/^Ses/{l=$0} /^Bac.*: EP2/{print l; print}' x.tmp
SessionID : 2006/09/16-2
Backup Specification: EP2
SessionID : 2006/09/17-2
Backup Specification: EP2

Insert "\n" in print lines as needed.
Using perl it looks much the same:

#perl -ne '$l = $_ if /^Ses/; print $l,$_ if /^Bac.*: EP2/' x.tmp
SessionID : 2006/09/16-2
Backup Specification: EP2
SessionID : 2006/09/17-2
Backup Specification: EP2

Both solution remember any line starting with Ses..
Then they print the last one remembered, and the current line if the current line starts with Bac... and has EP2 in it.

Cheers,
Hein.

[Igor Sovin]

Yes it does , but I need only:
2006/09/16-2
2006/09/17-2

as output.

[Hein van den Heuvel]

awk '/^Ses/{x=$3} /^Bac.*EP2/{print x}' infile

[Peter Nikitka]

Hi,

if you need to extract information for a specific session only:

omnidb -session -user root -last 3 -type backup -detail |
awk -v myid=EP2 '$1 == "SessionID" {id=$NF}
/Backup Specification/ {if (id==myid) print id,$NF}'

mfG Peter

[Sandman!]

>Yes it does , but I need only:
>2006/09/16-2
>2006/09/17-2

>as output.

slight modification to the awk command will give you just that:

# awk '{if($0~"EP2") print l; l=$NF}' infile

~cheers