Question

After running the command

find . -name "R*VER" -mtime +1 -exec sh -c 'grep -H ^err "{}" || echo "{}:No error"' \;

my files look like this

RRR1~COS~COSMETICS~40048~jgmdtv113~1~P~R22-200~029053662549~20110607~102151.VER No error
RRR1~COS~COSMETICS~ETT03~jgm14652.~3~F~R16-500~000907009757~20110607~085109.VER err 3922    

Using the tilde (~) symbol as delimiter in the file name, can I extract the fields I want so I get an output like this

RRR1~COS~COSMETICS~40048~jgmdtv113~1~P~R22-200~029053662549~20110607~102151.VER No error RRR1 COS P
RRR1~COS~COSMETICS~ETT03~jgm14652.~3~F~R16-500~000907009757~20110607~085109.VER err 3922 RRR1 COS F     

I tried the following

find . -name "R*VER" -mtime +1 -exec sh -c 'grep -H ^err "{}" || echo "{}:No error"' \;|awk -F~ '{print $0}{print $1"\t"$2"\t"$7"\t"$8"\t"$9"\t"$10}'

but it does not work; Instead, it produces this output (not all fields shown here…)

RRR1~COS~COSMETICS~40048~jgmdtv113~1~P~R22-200~029053662549~20110607~102151.VER No error
RRR1~COS~COSMETICS~40048~jgmdtv113~1~P~R22-200~029053662549~20110607~102151.VER RRR1 COS P
RRR1~COS~COSMETICS~ETT03~jgm14652.~3~F~R16-500~000907009757~20110607~085109.VER err 3922
RRR1~COS~COSMETICS~ETT03~jgm14652.~3~F~R16-500~000907009757~20110607~085109.VER RRR1 COS F

I’d like to do this is one pass so I can generate a SQL script with INSERT statements…Can it be done?

Answer 1

With help, this is what I got:

find . -name "R*VER" -exec sh -c 'grep -H ^err "{}" || echo "{}:No error"' \; |
awk -F: '
BEGIN { q="\047" }
{
file=$1
result=$2
sub(/^.*\//,"",file)
split(file,a,/~/)
print "INSERT INTO MYTABLE (COL1,COL2,COL3,COL4,COL5,COL6,COL7,COL8) VALUES (" q file q "," q result q "," q a[1] q "," q a[2] q "," q a[7] q "," q a[8] q "," q a[9] q "," q a[10] q ")"
}'

It works great. Thanks for taking the time.