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Yufei Han
Yufei Han

Reputation: 17

Using regex in sed and awk

I have to use regex with sed or awk to find things in a log file. The log file like this.

Jan 16 08:33:18 mail.knurledwidgets.example.org sendmail[1618]: qhgKT0cN80gSX: to=<[email protected]>, delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=193069, relay=mx.company.example.com. [192.168.123.12], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (OK <[email protected]>)
Jan 16 08:33:04 mail.knurledwidgets.example.org sendmail[3539]: q5c1SrFqkAZq9b: Milter: connect to filters
Jan 16 08:33:06 mail.knurledwidgets.example.org sendmail[3539]: q5c1SrFqkAZq9b: from=<[email protected]>, size=38065260, class=-30, nrcpts=1, msgid=<gnDSaYSEaP4Yk/.F0EhYbIYcihGO8Vd.dont-cross-the-memes.example.com>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA-v6, relay=proton.dont-cross-the-memes.example.com [192.168.98.234]

Those are three main form in the log file. Since I have to find the mail received which means the email which has a "from" before the email. I have write a regex like this.

^Jan\s\d\d\s(\d\d).*\bfrom\b\=<(.*)>,\s\bsize\b.*

I have test this regex using the TextWrangler. It can find all the email and replace them to "hour" "email address".

However when I trying to using this regex in the sed or awk to write a script. I have a few problem about my code.

This is Sed:

#!/bin/bash
sed -E 's/^Jan\s\d\d\s(\d\d).*\bfrom\b\=<(.*)>,\s\bsize\b.*/\1 \2/g' output

I don't know why this code doesn't work. It doesn't replace anything. How do I fix this problem? Maybe awk is a better choice?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 263

Answers (3)

Ed Morton
Ed Morton

Reputation: 203324

I usually find it convenient when parsing input with name=value data to create an array that lets me simply access the values by their names, e.g.:

$ cat tst.awk
{
    delete n2v
    for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) {
        if ($i ~ /=/) {
            name = value = $i
            sub(/=.*/,"",name)
            sub(/[^=]+=/,"",value)
            gsub(/^<|[>,]+$/,"",value)
            n2v[name] = value
        }
    }

    for (name in n2v) {
        value = n2v[name]
        print ">", name, "=", value
    }
    print "-----"
}
"from" in n2v { print $1, $2, $3, n2v["from"] }

.

$ awk -f tst.awk file
> stat = Sent
> relay = mx.company.example.com.
> xdelay = 00:00:01
> to = [email protected]
> dsn = 2.0.0
> mailer = esmtp
> delay = 00:00:02
> pri = 193069
-----
-----
> from = [email protected]
> relay = proton.dont-cross-the-memes.example.com
> nrcpts = 1
> class = -30
> size = 38065260
> proto = ESMTP
> msgid = gnDSaYSEaP4Yk/.F0EhYbIYcihGO8Vd.dont-cross-the-memes.example.com
> daemon = MTA-v6
-----
Jan 16 08:33:06 [email protected]

Upvotes: 4

Birei
Birei

Reputation: 36262

I think the problem is with \d syntax. It does not mean what you think. In sed it is followed by decimal values that matches a character, so it causes your regex to fail. Replace them with [0-9], like:

sed -r 's/^Jan\s[0-9]{2}\s([0-9]{2}).*\bfrom\b=<(.*)>,\s\bsize\b.*/\1 \2/g' output

Note that I use -r switch, because I don't know what -E means.

For the unique line that matches (the third one), yields:

08 [email protected]

Upvotes: 0

amit_g
amit_g

Reputation: 31250

You could also use awk (assuming that the match can be done on " from=<" and fields are in same order)

awk -F'[ :<>,]' '/ from=</ {print $3 " " $12}' output

Upvotes: 1

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