sort multipath sectional data

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi all,

I'm running a command on an ESXi server and the output for multipath device info is not in order. Can any of you SED or AWK gurus show me how I might sort the sectional data where both LUN paths are in order?

Output:

fc.20000000c9799e9a:10000000c9799e9a-fc.2001000402fc546c:5000402001fc546c-naa.6000402001fc546c637e40a300000000
Runtime Name: vmhba2:C0:T7:L61
Device: naa.6000402001fc546c637e40a300000000
Device Display Name: NEXSAN Fibre Channel Disk (naa.6000402001fc546c637e40a300000000)
Group State: active
Storage Array Type Path Config:
Path Selection Policy Path Config: {current: no; preferred: no}

fc.20000000c9799e9a:10000000c9799e9a-fc.2001000402fc546c:5000402001fc546c-naa.6000402001fc546c637e40e200000000
Runtime Name: vmhba2:C0:T7:L62
Device: naa.6000402001fc546c637e40e200000000
Device Display Name: NEXSAN Fibre Channel Disk (naa.6000402001fc546c637e40e2
Group State: active
Storage Array Type Path Config:
Path Selection Policy Path Config: {current: no; preferred: no}

fc.20000000c9799e9a:10000000c9799e9a-fc.2001000402fc546c:5000402101fc546c-naa.6000402001fc546c637e40a300000000
Runtime Name: vmhba2:C0:T5:L61
Device: naa.6000402001fc546c637e40a300000000
Device Display Name: NEXSAN Fibre Channel Disk (naa.6000402001fc546c637e40a300000000)
Group State: active
Storage Array Type Path Config:
Path Selection Policy Path Config: {current: yes; preferred: yes}

What I'd like to see:

fc.20000000c9799e9a:10000000c9799e9a-fc.2001000402fc546c:5000402101fc546c-naa.6000402001fc546c637e40a300000000
Runtime Name: vmhba2:C0:T5:L61
Device: naa.6000402001fc546c637e40a300000000
Device Display Name: NEXSAN Fibre Channel Disk (naa.6000402001fc546c637e40a300000000)
Group State: active
Storage Array Type Path Config:
Path Selection Policy Path Config: {current: yes; preferred: yes}

fc.20000000c9799e9a:10000000c9799e9a-fc.2001000402fc546c:5000402001fc546c-naa.6000402001fc546c637e40a300000000
Runtime Name: vmhba2:C0:T7:L61
Device: naa.6000402001fc546c637e40a300000000
Device Display Name: NEXSAN Fibre Channel Disk (naa.6000402001fc546c637e40a300000000)
Group State: active
Storage Array Type Path Config:
Path Selection Policy Path Config: {current: no; preferred: no}

fc.20000000c9799e9a:10000000c9799e9a-fc.2001000402fc546c:5000402001fc546c-naa.6000402001fc546c637e40e200000000
Runtime Name: vmhba2:C0:T7:L62
Device: naa.6000402001fc546c637e40e200000000
Device Display Name: NEXSAN Fibre Channel Disk (naa.6000402001fc546c637e40e2
Group State: active
Storage Array Type Path Config:
Path Selection Policy Path Config: {current: no; preferred: no}

Thanks,

Stovie1000

2

So which lines are LUN paths? Line 1 and 3 in every section?

3

The LUN path would be the second line; however, I would need all the info from each section starting with the fc line and ending with the Path Selection line.

I would just like to see both paths for the same LUN IDs and there sectional info follow each other instead of being randomly displayed from the output.

4

Guess there is no "|" in your file. (or you can replace it by any character which is not appear in your file.)

awk '{printf (/^$/)?$0"\n":$0"|" }' urfile |sort -t\| -k2  |tr "|" "\n"