4 x fibre cards elimination

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

I have variables like mentioned below and want to separate as mentioned in output.

var1="4 x fibre cards"
var2="2 fibre cards"
var3="6 - fibre cards"
var4="4 x dual-port"

I have variables like this.I want to separate numbers from this and fibre cards from this.

output has to be
4 fibre-cards
2 fibre-cards
6 fibre-cards
4 dual-port

Any one can help please...it would be great if any one can provide reply asap as it is very urgent.

2

None over there to solve this??

3

What about you?
Here is the kickstart:

var1=$(awk 'NF==3{printf "%s %s-%s",$1,$2,$3}NF==4{printf "%s %s-%s",$1,$3,$4}' <<< $var1)
4

Hi,

try:

for i in ${!var*}; do sed "s/ [x-] / /g;s/ \(.*\) / \1-/" <<< "${!i}"; done

The output looks like this (on bash):

4 fibre-cards
2 fibre-cards
6 fibre-cards
4 dual-port

The script will search for all variables named var* and then do two simple
substitutions, delete occurances of " x" or " -" and join two separate
words by a hyphen. You should be able to modify this according to your
needs.

HTH Chris

5

Thanks chirs..!!
Great...