Outputting formatted Result log file from old 30000 lines result log<help required>

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Well I have a 3000 lines result log file that contains all the machine data when it does the testing... It has 3 different section that i am intrsted in

1) starting with "20071126 11:11:11 Machine Header 1"
1000 lines...

"End machine header 1"

2) starting with "20071126 12:12:12 Machine Header 2"
1000 lines...

"End machine header 2"

2) starting with "20071126 12:12:12 Machine Header 3"
1000 lines...

"End machine header 3"

With this their are a lot of junk data also..
I just want to grab these 3 headers and put in into different file With each header having his own sections
eg:
===================Header1 Start====================
<it's content>
===================Header1 End ====================
how I can do this .. I want something like this

./<New script> <old log file>

and it gives me a new log file.

Can you please help me in making this... I want to make it in bash scripting.

2

Hey guys.. Please show me some pointers.. Its kinda very urgent.

3

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4

Well Its not an Class Room as well as homework problem.. I am trying to make some real world test result documentation script.As i am new to shell domain.. I am not able to figure out this that easily, Till now I have done this much

#!/bin/sh
#set -x
file=$1
echo $file
while read line;
do 
echo $line 
done < $file

With this I am able to read my file properly but the data is not coming with proper indentation, It is loosing its initial spacing which I dont want.

5

If awk is allowed (anyhow it gives a direction to figure it out in bash):

#!/bin/sh

awk '
{
  if($0 ~ /^starting with .*Header /) {
    i++
    print "===Header"i " Start==="
    flag=1
    next
  }
  if($0 ~ /^"End Machine Header /) {
    print "===Header"i " End==="
    if(i==3) {
      exit
    }
    flag=0
  }
  if(flag) {
    print $0
  }
  next
}' $1

Regards

6

Hi,

This one:

awk '(NF==5 && $3=="Machine" && $4=="Header"){
flag=1
file=sprintf("%s.txt",$5)
}
(flag==1) {
print $0 >> file
close(file)
}
(NF==4 && $2=="machine" && $1=="End"){
flag=0
}' filename