Re: can sed take take several line to produce multiple output

Hi,
your script is working but produce in 1 line...
the \n doesn't work!


--- Tim Chase <sed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Can sed take the following input:
> > 
> > header,login - telnet ssh, Thu Dec 08 11:08:55
> 2005,
> > subject,abc,def,123,456, abc.linux.com.my
> > 
> > 
> > and produce:
> > 
> > Thu Dec 08 11:08:55 2005, Name=abd 2name=def
> phone=123
> > phone2=245
> >>From : abc.linux.com.my Access=telnet ssh 
> 
> If I understand correctly, the following sed script
> should do the 
> trick:
> 
> sed 'N;s/.*- \([^,]*\), 
>
\(.*\)\n[^,]*,\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),
> \(.*\)/\2, 
> Name=\3 2name=\4 phone=\5 phone2=\6\n>From : \7
> Access=\1/'
> 
> to reformat the file.
> 
> If you only want records for a given Name=, you can
> do
> 
> 
> sed 'N;s/.*- \([^,]*\), 
>
\(.*\)\n[^,]*,\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),
> \(.*\)/\2, 
> Name=\3 2name=\4 phone=\5 phone2=\6\n>From : \7 
> Access=\1/;/Name=abc/!d'
> 
> Those are both one-liners, in case either of our
> mailers bung it.
> 
> It basically just joins the two adjacent lines into
> a single 
> buffer for manipulation, picks out the fields of
> interest, 
> reformats them in your desired format, and then, if
> they don't 
> match the name you want to filter on.  The second
> version then 
> check to see if it contains "Name=abc"...if it
> doesn't, then it 
> deletes the whole thing and moves on to the next
> 2-line pair.
> 
> It's been a while since I've used more than about 4
> of those 
> backreferences...seven was quite a hairball :)
> 
> -tim
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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