question about grepping something
 

Hello all,

i am trying to split up an xml file, and i want to use the grep command to do so.
My problem is that when i do this :

grep -n "</bf:log>" ev_14567-20050215_0956.xml

that i get an out put like this :

2404628:</bf:log>

Because i want to do some calculations in a script with the rule-number (for using head and tail), i need the output to be this :

2404628

So actually i just wanna chop off the ":</bf:log>" piece. (and be able to use 2404628 as a numerical value in a script)
I have looked in the forums, and i saw that the awk command was advised, but after trying for a while i can not get the output the way that i want it.
Can someone please give me a hand ?

Thank you very much.

grep blah | cut -f 1 -d:

Thanks a lot ! It's working !! (ofcourse it is you'll think :D )

;)
Doh!!
even simpler....

grep -l
(minus ell)

I hope u can help me with the following as well if i may ask.

I have a list of xml files that need to be parsed by a Java parser (from selectbf).
When the files are too big it does not funtion anymore.
So i decided to write a "tiny" "easy" bash-script that would split up the xml-files and make sure all the tags are correct.
Now, on paper it looks pretty good, i've got it all worked out. I only need a piece of code (:D )

My current problem is that i have 3 xml files in a directory :

-rw-r--r-- 1 grave grave 129800403 Mar 1 18:19 ev_14567-20050215_0956.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 grave grave 4305438 Mar 1 18:19 ev_14567-20050218_2158.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 grave grave 2109 Mar 1 18:19 voorbeeld_part1.xml

The criterium for a file to be split up into smaller ones is 30 MB. So if it is bigger than 30 MB it needs to be copied to a special directory where the splitting process will take place.
However i can't get my loop in bash working correctly since it moves all the xml-files instead of just the one from 129 mb.

Here is my code :

#!/bin/bash
#This script will (try to) split xml-logfiles from BF1942 into decent, usable ones of 30 mb in size.
#detection of how many xml-files we have that are bigger than 30 MB cause they need to be split up
#how many xmlfiles are in the directory to start with ?
#First we set all variables to zero, just making sure ;)
number_of_xmlfiles=0
filesize_kb=0
filesize_lines=0
filesize_limit_kb=30000
filename_bigxml=0
filename_anyfile=0
path_to_all_xmlfiles="/home/grave/download/logs/xmltest/"
dest_path_big_xmlfiles="/home/grave/download/logs/xmltest/test2"
ftp_url="ftpserver"
ftp_pass="password"
ftp_user="username"
i=0
#here is some room for the ftp-procedure
wget ftp://username:password@ftpserver_ur...942/logs/*.xml
#lets make a textfile that contains all the xmlfiles, big and small, just to see how many we got
listing=`ls /home/grave/download/logs/xmltest/*.xml`
echo "$listing">listing.txt
#and echo it out as a check, we can remove or comment this later, right now its usefull for error handling
echo "$listing"
#how many xml files do we have exactly
number_of_xmlfiles=`wc -l listing.txt|cut -f1 -dl`
echo "$number_of_xmlfiles"
# Next we're gonna copy all xml files bigger than 30 mb to a separate (parsing) directory
# However we need to define the xml file that the script is currently looking at :

while [ "$i" -le "$number_of_xmlfiles" ] && [ "$filesize_kb" -gt "$filesize_limit_kb" ];
do
current_filename=`head -n "$i" listing.txt` # RIGHT HERE IT GOES WRONG
echo "$current_filename"
echo "$i"
echo "$number_of_xmlfiles"
echo "$filesize_kb"
echo "$filesize_limit_kb"
mv "$path_to_all_xmlfiles"/*.xml "$dest_path_big_xmlfiles"/
echo dit lijkt goed te gaan
i=$(($i+1))
done
#filesize_lines=`wc -l |cut -f1 -de` #this is for later on, neglect it for now
echo $filesize
exit


I have tried to comment it as good as possible, and the programming might be just a 'bit' crappy, but please if someone can tell me what is wrong with my loop, i'm all ears. The splitting of the files is something i will have to deal with later on. I try to take one step at a time.

If someone has time, please let me know what im doing wrong here.

I didn't want to try and debug the loop :)

How about this?

find -size +30000k -exec mv {} /home/grave/download/logs/xmltest/test2/. \;

:cry: i just found it :newbie:

Guess i've been staring at it for too long.