Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 14:19:54 +0100 From: Matt Heath <matt@thebigchoice.com> To: "Dave [Nexus]" <dave@nexusinternetsolutions.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shell/awk scripting help - parsing directories to gainuser/file information for commands Message-ID: <3ED365FA.5080900@thebigchoice.com> In-Reply-To: <DBEIKNMKGOBGNDHAAKGNOEBEPEAB.dave@nexusinternetsolutions.net> References: <DBEIKNMKGOBGNDHAAKGNOEBEPEAB.dave@nexusinternetsolutions.net>
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ls /www/*/logs/*.access_log | awk -f webalize-it.awk where the file webalize-it.awk contains BEGIN { FS = "/" } { user = $3 domain = $5 # extract the domain name gsub("^" user, "", domain) gsub("\.access_log$", "", domain) cmd = sprintf("webalizer -n %s -o /www/%s/stats/", domain, user) system(cmd) } >have a number of uses for this where I am trying to get away from maintaining >lengthy static files which contain all the statically entered commands to run >for a cron job... > >for example; > >- need to run webalizer of a number of user websites and directories >- can run webalizer without a customized conf file, but need to provide >hostname, outputdir and other such variables from the command line >- can list all the log files which give the appropriate information > ># ls /www/*/logs/*.access_log > >generates... > >/www/user1/.logs/user1domain1.com.access_log >/www/user1/.logs/user1domain2.com.access_log >/www/user2/.logs/user2domain1.com.access_log >/www/user2/.logs/user2domain2.com.access_log >/www/user3/.logs/user3domain1.com.access_log >/www/user3/.logs/user3domain2.com.access_log > >what I am trying to script is something that does; > ><pseudo code> >for i in /www/*/logs/*.access_log; > ereg (user)(domain_name) from $i; > do webalizer -n $domain_name -o /www/$user/stats/; >done ></pseudo code> > >...as this would eliminate human error in maintaining a file which contains the >appropriate lines to handle this via cron or something every night. > >This is one example, there are a slew of other similar applications that I would >use this for. have played with awk as well, just can't wrap my head around this >(not a shell scripting person by trade). > >Any guidance or insight would be appreciated. > >Dave > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > >
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