[PLUG] awk script

[Don Buchholz]

My first shot would be:

     awk "(\$15 ~ /(${lcUser}|${ucUser})/) {print \$1 \$2 \" \" \$3 \" 
\" \$12}" m.log

Replace the single quotes with double quotes at each end of your awk(1)
command string.  And then use the backslash (\) to escape all the shell
meta-characters (the dollar signs [$] and embedded double quotes ["] ).

- Don


Michael Montagne wrote:

>I need to parse my mail log for all mail received.
>I have this awk script:
>awk '($15 ~ /(montagne|MONTAGNE)/) {print $1 $2 " " $3  " " $12}' m.log
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>But obviously m.log should be /var/log/mail.log
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>My trouble is that I want to pass the user name to the script.  It
>should then use that name in the "or" part of the regexp in both upper
>and lower cases and also output the results to a file called
>username.txt.
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>And all should be invoked simply, like "showmail username"
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