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Home > Forums > MIS/IT > Operating Systems - UNIX based > -General UNIX discussion Forum

parsing output for excel

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dwcasey (MIS)

13 Feb 08 9:44

I run a script that does some checks on many, many servers.

If an error condition exists, I write out to a file ERR: with the issue that was found. I'm wanting to be able to create some format from this that will go into a spreadsheet. Really just looking for ideas on what would be a good way to parse it that would be acceptable for Excel. Like maybe grab a unique servername and all it's issues?

This is a cat *.out of the servers.out file created by my script.

srv.srv01.out:ERR: dummy not found for LTAPEDEV in pri srv01
srv.srv01.out:ERR: Found 127.0.0.1 on TSM Server in resolv.conf for TSM srv01
srv.srv02.out:ERR: dummy not found for LTAPEDEV in pri srv02
srv.srv02.out:ERR: directory /dummy not found on filesystem in pri srv02
srv.srv02.out:ERR: directory /dummy not found on filesystem in bkp srv02
srv.srv02.out:ERR: Found 127.0.0.1 on TSM Server in resolv.conf for TSM srv02
srv.srv03.out:ERR: dummy not found for LTAPEDEV in pri srv03
srv.srv03.out:ERR: directory /dummy not found on filesystem in pri srv03
srv.srv03.out:ERR: directory /dummy not found on filesystem in bkp srv03
srv.srv03.out:ERR: Found 127.0.0.1 on TSM Server in resolv.conf for TSM srv03

columb (IS/IT--Management)

13 Feb 08 9:56

Use Coma Separated Variable files

Delimit your fields with a comma.
Use the csv extension
Open with Excel

On the internet no one knows you're a dog

Columb Healy

dwcasey (MIS)

13 Feb 08 14:15

I ended up sending all my ERR output to their own file for each server, then using some AWK ( with help from the internet ) going with servername, a TAB, error condition.

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