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by **@ndre** » Fri, 12 Jul 2002 22:28:43

Hi,

I've got a scripting question.
I've got the following files: NAME-access_log
NAME is different per file.
I want to have only NAME.

On linux the following works:
ls *-access_log |awk -F -access_log '{print $1}'

output:
NAME1
NAME2
NAME3
etc...

Unfortunatly, this doesn't work with solaris :-(
It just keeps printing
NAME1-access_log
NAME2-access_log
NAME3-access_log
etc...

Does anyone has an idea, how to solve this?

thanks in advance

Andree

by **John Howell** » Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:14:27

> Hi,

> I've got a scripting question.
> I've got the following files: NAME-access_log
> NAME is different per file.
> I want to have only NAME.

> On linux the following works:
> ls *-access_log |awk -F -access_log '{print $1}'

> output:
> NAME1
> NAME2
> NAME3
> etc...

> Unfortunatly, this doesn't work with solaris :-(
> It just keeps printing
> NAME1-access_log
> NAME2-access_log
> NAME3-access_log
> etc...

> Does anyone has an idea, how to solve this?

ls *-access_log | sed -e 's/-access_log//'

John Howells

by **Griff Miller I** » Sat, 13 Jul 2002 02:32:09

> Hi,

> I've got a scripting question.
> I've got the following files: NAME-access_log
> NAME is different per file.
> I want to have only NAME.

> On linux the following works:
> ls *-access_log |awk -F -access_log '{print $1}'

> output:
> NAME1
> NAME2
> NAME3
> etc...

> Unfortunatly, this doesn't work with solaris :-(
> It just keeps printing
> NAME1-access_log
> NAME2-access_log
> NAME3-access_log
> etc...

> Does anyone has an idea, how to solve this?

> thanks in advance

> Andree

by **Mike Marsha** » Sat, 13 Jul 2002 02:49:03

bonnieblue% ls
name1-access_log name2-access_log unrelatedfile
bonnieblue% ls *-access_log | awk -F- '{ print $1 }'
name1
name2
bonnieblue% uname -a
SunOS bonnieblue 5.8 Generic_108528-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10

-Mike http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~hubcap

by **Didier Imbreck** » Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:09:22

> > Hi,

> > I've got a scripting question.
> > I've got the following files: NAME-access_log
> > NAME is different per file.
> > I want to have only NAME.

> > On linux the following works:
> > ls *-access_log |awk -F -access_log '{print $1}'

> > output:
> > NAME1
> > NAME2
> > NAME3
> > etc...

> > Unfortunatly, this doesn't work with solaris :-(
> > It just keeps printing
> > NAME1-access_log
> > NAME2-access_log
> > NAME3-access_log
> > etc...

> > Does anyone has an idea, how to solve this?

> > thanks in advance

> > Andree

> Use nawk . The nawk -F flag works with RE's .

If you don't use the new awk /usr/bin/nawk and still using the old awk
/usr/bin/awk, your must change your command to
ls *-access_log|awk 'BEGIN{FS="-access_log"}{print $1}'

FS is for FieldSeparator the F in your command.

Didier

by **Wayne Polloc** » Sun, 14 Jul 2002 01:36:46

> Hi,

> I've got a scripting question.
> I've got the following files: NAME-access_log
> NAME is different per file.
> I want to have only NAME.

> On linux the following works:
> ls *-access_log |awk -F -access_log '{print $1}'

> output:
> NAME1
> NAME2
> NAME3
> etc...

> Unfortunatly, this doesn't work with solaris :-(
> It just keeps printing
> NAME1-access_log
> NAME2-access_log
> NAME3-access_log
> etc...

> Does anyone has an idea, how to solve this?

> thanks in advance

> Andree

If you use ksh or bash you can save a process by using:

for i in *-access_log
do echo ${i%-access_log}
done

In the words of Larry Wall, "There's more than one way to do it!"

-Wayne

by **Kevin R. Pace** » Sat, 20 Jul 2002 22:15:09

> Hi,

> I've got a scripting question.
> I've got the following files: NAME-access_log
> NAME is different per file.
> I want to have only NAME.

> On linux the following works:
> ls *-access_log |awk -F -access_log '{print $1}'

> output:
> NAME1
> NAME2
> NAME3
> etc...

> Unfortunatly, this doesn't work with solaris :-(
> It just keeps printing
> NAME1-access_log
> NAME2-access_log
> NAME3-access_log
> etc...

> Does anyone has an idea, how to solve this?

> thanks in advance

> Andree

Get rid of the space between "-F" and "-access_log"

-krp