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KSH Output not coming correclty !!!

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media
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mount
February 18, 2011 at 07:36:10
Specs: Unix
Guys,

I need some help, the output for my script below is causing me some issues....

Not sure where i am going wrong..

The out put should be all one line, but from some reasons its coming out on 4 lines...

Can you suggesst what i am doing wrong please!!!!!!

for MEDIA in `cat /tmp/freeze1 | awk '{print $2}'`
do
nbemmcmd -listmedia -mediaid $MEDIA | egrep "Media Type:|Last Mount:|Data Expiration:|Valid Images:" | awk '{print $3}' |
while read LINE
do
MEDIATYPE=`echo $LINE | cut -f1 -d" "`
LAST_MOUNT=`echo $LINE | cut -f2 -d" "`
DATE_EXPIRE=`echo $LINE | cut -f3 -d" "`
VALID_IMAGES=`echo $LINE | cut -f4 -d" "`
echo $MEDIA $MEDIATYPE $LAST_MOUNT $DATE_EXPIRE $VALID_IMAGES | awk '{printf " %-25s %-15s %-30s %-25s %-25s\n" , $1,$2,$3,$4,$5'} >> /tmp/FreezeMediaCheck.txt
done
done


Output of the script
==============

BAA139 DLT DLT DLT DLT
BAA139 02/01/2001 02/01/2001 02/01/2001 02/01/2001
BAA139 INFINITY INFINITY INFINITY INFINITY
BAA139 35 35 35 35
BAA151 DLT DLT DLT DLT
BAA151 - - - -
BAA151 INFINITY INFINITY INFINITY INFINITY
BAA151 29 29 29 29

King Regards

Junes


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#1
February 18, 2011 at 09:11:00
How many lines does this print out?

for MEDIA in `cat /tmp/freeze1 | awk '{print $2}'`
do
   echo $MEDIA
done

If it prints out more than one line, I don't see why you would expect everything to print out on one line.

Maybe if you take out the newline in awk's printf statement:

{printf " %-25s %-15s %-30s %-25s %-25s\n" , $1,$2,$3,$4,$5'}

to this:

{printf " %-25s %-15s %-30s %-25s %-25s" , $1,$2,$3,$4,$5'}

BTW, using the for loop like this is not only ugly but inefficient. Have you considered using a while loop and let it do the parsing:

while f1 MEDIA therest
do
   .
   .
done < /tmp/freeze1


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#2
February 18, 2011 at 09:20:29
Found a better way

set -x

for MEDIA in `cat /tmp/freeze1 | awk '{print $2}'`
do
set -- `nbemmcmd -listmedia -mediaid $MEDIA | egrep "Media Type:|Last Mount:|Data Expiration:|Valid Images:" | awk '{print $3}'`
printf " %-25s %-15s %-30s %-25s %-25s\n" $MEDIA $1 $2 $3 $4 >>/tmp/FreezeMediaCheck.txt
done

King Regards

Junes


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