Tony Nelson wrote:
At 8:48 PM -0500 12/18/07, James Pifer wrote:
Need a bit of scripting help. I have a very small script with a case
statement. The object of the case statement is derived from the
dmidecode command to determine the type of machine it is, if possible.
It works fine, but we're finding that a lot of the HP type machines
respond with a model number plus other information. For example, we
might get these two:
HP Compaq dc7700 30GB6000
HP Compaq dc7700 60GB6000
Here's a real one.
Product Name: HP Compaq dc7700 Small Form Factor
Those are completely made up, the point being that we want to match on
just "HP Compaq dc7700" and forget the rest.
...
case $printername in
"HP Compaq dc7700"*) echo "found $printername" ;;
esac
<chortle>
the example's fine, but read again what he's looking at:-)
I have a bash book from Oreilly, it's good. Jacques has a newer edition
than mine.
I do lots of data extraction using grep, sed and awk. Can do almost
anything with those.
This illustrats a few key points of awk without being overly complicated
(or complete)
[root@potoroo ~]# dmidecode \
| awk -F : '/Product Name:/ {print $2}; /Manufacturer:/ {print $2}'
Hewlett-Packard
HP Compaq dc7700 Small Form Factor
Hewlett-Packard
0A54h
Hewlett-Packard
Intel
Intel
JEDEC ID
JEDEC ID
JEDEC ID
JEDEC ID
Not Specified
[root@potoroo ~]#
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Cheers
John
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