sed command to print expression plus entire line after

andre3050 · 07-04-2013, 03:49 PM

Hey guys

Using the following ced command with a lot of help from a couple of forum members which works great.
I cannot work out how to print the "said: xxx" and also include the rest of the line ie, description of the error, in bold below.

sed -rn 's/.*<([^>]*).*(said: 450*|said: 451*|said: 452*|said: 550*([- ]5\.1\.1)?).*/\1,\2/p' mail > out.txt

Eg, above ced urrently prints the 'Person@amailbox.com,said: 550' I'm guessing it's p ot 'p', which didn't work!

Jul 3 05:58:54 245ML postfix/smtp[15004]: 77FFC1665C0: to=<Person@amailbox.com>, relay=mail.amailbox.com[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:25, delay=23, delays=0.82/0.13/21/0.26, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host mail.amailbox.com[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] said: 550 <Person@amailbox.com>, Recipient unknown (in reply to RCPT TO command))

This is just one example error description.

Thanks and hope it makes sense!

chrism01 · 07-04-2013, 06:09 PM

If you just want the whole line, you don't need sed, you could just use grep.
Here's sed

Code:

# just entire line
sed -rn 's/.*<([^>]*).*(said: 450*|said: 451*|said: 452*|said: 550*([- ]5\.1\.1)?).*/&/p'


# matches, followed by line 
sed -rn 's/.*<([^>]*).*(said: 450*|said: 451*|said: 452*|said: 550*([- ]5\.1\.1)?).*/\1,\2,&/p'

andre3050 · 07-05-2013, 09:42 AM

Hi chrism01, thank you for tip.

Using the '# matches, followed by line'
Instead of printing, eg, Person@amailbox.com,said: said: 550 Person@amailbox.com, Recipient unknown (in reply to RCPT TO command)) Which would be perfect.

It actually prints:

Person@amailbox.com,said: 550,Jul 4 04:14:24 245ML postfix/smtp[15004]: 77FFC1665C0: to=<Person@amailbox.com>, relay=mail.amailbox.com[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:25, delay=23, delays=0.82/0.13/21/0.26, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host mail.amailbox.com[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] said: 550 <Person@amailbox.com>, Recipient unknown (in reply to RCPT TO command))

Seems to be adding another 'said:' and re positioning date and time