Chris Bradford wrote: > Hi guys, > > This is way off topic (hence WOT), but I am really stuck with this > *windows* issue. > > Unfortunately in my environment I still have a few windows (yes i know!) > servers, and on one of them I am trying to make a script that will > interpret a text file called 'disc.txt' that looks like this: > > jo tynan 15 Disc > wdica KIML 1 > Disc wdica sararyan > 6 Disc rdpwd > *There ARE spaces at the beginning of each line for some reason.* > > The file is generated every hour by the command: > > qwinsta /SERVER:servername | find "Disc" > disc.txt > > > Is there a way that I can pick out just the number, which is a session > number, on each line and remove the text? Maybe remove all other > characters? Or just pick out them number on each line for use in a later > command. > > Then, I would like a command to be run for every number in the text > file, I assume something like this would work: > > for "i" in textfilename run a_script_name > > The command that needs to be run for each session number is: > > rwinsta /SERVER:servername number_from_above_file > > I hoping one of you guys can help me! Any pointers would be greatly > appreciated! > > I know it's off topic, but bear with me, I've all ready replaced a load > of our machines with FC5 so I've earnt some brownie points! Even if you > can point me in the right direction. > > Thanks for reading, > > -Chris > If the text is formatted as you have shown above, you may want to use cut on it to get the number field before disk. You would use the -b or --bytes= option to only get the fields you are after. The advantage here is that you do not care if there are spaces in other fields that come before the one you are after. The disadvantage is that it only works with fixed columns. You can then feed the output of cut into your for loop. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
