On Thursday 29 May 2008 19:44, kj wrote:
> [...]
> >> I'm trying to make three columns out of a postfix mail log. Queue
> >> ID, From address, and remote server response for certain
> >> situations (it's already grepped down to that).
> >>
> >> awk '{print $7" "$6" "$17}'
> >>
> >> $17 is the first word of the remote server response, I need to
> >> include everything from $17 onwards to the end of the line into
> >> the third field.
> [...]
> I did figure it out,eventually. This is ugly, and most likely the
> wrong way to do it, but it works. It sorts it in order of the sender:
>
> grep bounced /var/log/mail.log | awk '{printf "%s, %s ", $6,$7; { for
> (i=17; i<=NF; i=i+1) printf "%s ", $i } print "\n"}' | sed -e
> 's/:,/,/' -e 's/to=<//' -e 's/>,/,/' | grep -v ^$ | sort -k2 >
> /home/kj/bounces.csv
Out of curiosity I tried a different way, using 'cut' and without
using 'awk'. Here is an example pipeline:
$ echo word1 word2 word3 word4 word5 word6 word7 word8 server message
here | cut -d " " -f "3,5,9-" | sed -e 's/ /,/1' -e 's/ /,/1'
word3,word5,server message here
$
Best regards,
Alfredo
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