[SunHELP] script challenge

[Bashar]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Naser Ali wrote:

> Gurus,
> 
> I have an input file which has the following data in it,
> 
> ############ 20010216_200000 ###########
> 220
> 190
> 180
> 190
> 210
> 180
> 190
> 190
> 190
> 180
> The Average time for this ping is: 192
> ########################################
> 
> 
> ############ 20010216_203000 ###########
>  The listner is down at this time
> ########################################
> 
> What I would like to do is associate the "Average" time with the collection
> time and put it in a seperate file ignoring the rest, in the following
> format,
> 2001::02::16::192
> 
> I hope I am clear on this question.
> Any help or suggestion will be greatly appreciated.
> TIA

echo `date +%Y::%m::%d::``cat inputfile |grep Average |awk '{print $8}'` >
outputfile

that would do the job


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