SH string formatting

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi all,
my syslog.txt is a file like this:

Jan 20 10:55:19 cerbero | process1: process1.--: [ID 379539 local1.info] |Info |xyxyxyxyxyxyxx |
Jan 20 10:59:45 cerbero | processlong2 : threadlong1.0 : [ID 379539 local1.info] |Info |ughxueeughxueeuxexuexueuxexuexue |

I need a .sh script to print to screen something like this.

Jan 20 10:55:19 | process1: ___________process1.--: ___________|Info  |xyxyxyxyxyxyxx |
Jan 20 10:59:45 | processlong2  : _____threadlong1.0 : ________|Info  |ughxueeuxexuexueughxueeuxexuexue |

I'm not able to display here spaces instead of "_" but I need space-padding (i.e. 20 space char)

Thanks to all,
Riccardo

2

will this work?

sed -e 's/: /:            /g' -e 's/: .*\]/:            /g' file
3

something like

cut syslog.txt -d'|' -f2 | sed 's/\[.*\]//g' | awk -F=":" '{printf ("%15s %15s\n", $1, $2); }'

:confused:Is not complete but works on what needs to be modified in the file.

4

Hi all, thanks for suggestion.

I need to split all the rows using as field separator " " or ":" or "|" or "[" or "]"

For example:
Jan 20 10:55:19 cerbero | process1: process1.--: [ID 379539 local1.info] |Info |xyxyxyxyxyxyxx |

Jan
20
10
55
19
cerbero
process1
process1.--
ID
379539
local1.info
....

By this way I can use awk and printf to create a new custom line...

When I use AKW FS = [ \|\[\]:] I don't have to expected result...

Riccardo