awk grep question

loz

Hi Guys,

Probably easy for soemone in here i wish to grab from below

Jan 29 11:03:27 hostname postfix/smtp[27579]: [ID 197553 mail.info] 67F1623945F: to=<xxx@xxx.com>, relay=none, delay=3, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=xxx.com type=A: Host not found)

fields 1, 2, 3, 10 and then 13 onwards as one chunk,

eg

Jan,29,11:03:27,to=<xxx@xxx.com>,status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=xxx.com type=A: Host not found)

I know i can awk out the first few with space delinmiter and print position, but the whole lot after the first comma ?

Thanks

Loz

nobodythere

For the last bit, try a for loop:

for (i=13; i<NF; i++) printf "%s", $i","; i++; printf "%s", $i"\n"

daymobrew

cut seems to work.

cut -d ' ' -f 1,2,3,10,13- the-file.txt

This says to use space as delimiter and return fields 1, 2, 3, 10 and then 13 on.
Returns:

Jan 29 11:03:27 to=<xxx@xxx.com>, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found.
 Name service error for name=xxx.com type=A: Host not found)