Hi... thanks for reading my thread!

He is my situation..

I have a file that contains several hundred server names along with there associated info.... one line per server.

I sometimes receive a list of servers that are going to be downed and I need to check these against my list for possible impact.

I want to be able to copy the email list into an array, and grep my server list based on the array content and send it to a file.

I am not very good at this yet but am guessing it would be something line this......

array0=(
server1
server2
server3
server4
server5
server6
server7
server8
server9
server10
server11
)

for (( i = 0 ; i < @{#array0[@] ; i++ ))
cat serverlist | grep ${array0[$i]} >> output file
done


Can anyone help with this and explain how it should work?

Thanks,
-OG-

Assuming your using a bash shell,
I would recommend a simpler for loop

If you already have the list as a string variable (separated by spaces tabs, or newlines)
(SERVERLIST="server1 server2 server3") just put
If the list of servers going down comes as a file, use

Here is what i understood :

you have one list of servers which are going for maintenance : tmp_list
you have one list having full details on all the servers : org_list

U want read one server at a time from tmp_list and search in org_list ?
If yes then :

cat tmp_list | while read line;do cat org_list | grep "$line";done

should resolve .. let me know how it goes.

rlhartmann, rajwinder:

Outstanding!!!!

So simple and yet so usefull..... I love bash.... is there nothing it can't do?

Thank you both very much.

BTW.... do you know of a good site or book that I can use to help me with bash? I search google all the time, but I never find gems like this....

Thanks again to you both.

- OG -

I'm not sure whether I fully understand the task at hand,
but wouldn't it (if file a held the list of the ones to be
downed and b was the complete list) sufficient to do:

grep -f a b

?



Cheers,
Tink

Wow.... even slicker!

Thanks much.....

Re Bash online tutorials:

http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-G...tml/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz - Linux tutorial from the cmd line

Enjoy


Re rlhartmann; UUOC (useless use of cat)

cat serverlist | grep "${SERVER}" >> output_file

use

grep "${SERVER}" serverlist >> output_file

better performance.