Script help

[George Abraham_1]

Hi admins
I have a file in blocks of 6 entries each ( see the attachment).The blocks are saperated by a blank line. How to format the file such that all six fields are in one line. Then next block in second line like wise......

SessionID:sessiontype:Status

The basic idea is to find the last succesfull full backup and change the protection. If the last backup was not succesful then re run the backup.

Thanks in advance.

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi George:

Here's a crude quick one:

# awk '/SessionID/ {ID=$3};/Session type/ {TYPE=$5};/Status/ {print ID":"TYPE":"$3}' inputfile

...using your supplied data, the above would output this:

2002/12/11-23:(incr):Completed/Failures
2002/12/13-17:(incr):Completed/Failures
2002/12/14-14:(incr):Completed

...

Regards!

...JRF...