awk/sed solution

I need a solution to the following:

I have a file with hostnames listed i.e.

hostname1
hsotname2
hostname3

I also have another file that will contain one of the above hostnames in the file on any given line.

The problem is using breaking the awk statement to read the second file for a search match.

For example:

cd $systemPath
ls | awk -F. '{ print $1 }' \
> /tmp/hostList

Gives me a file listing of hostnames

Now I need to search for each hostname
in a different file, until I find the line containing one of the hostnames. There will be only one, but it will be amongst other fields, probably can use 'split' to create an array and get the hostname.

This won't work, but maybe you can see what I'm trying to do.

awk ' /$hostname/ { \
hostname = split($0, hostLine, " ")
for (i = 1; i <= z; ++i) {
print i, hostLine[i]
}
}' otherFile > hostFile(contains match)


Thanks

Hi,

Your subject header asks for a sed/awk sollution, so my way of solving this might not be what you want........

You could do something like:


This code will produce lines that look like:

hostname1: word word hostname1 word word
hostname2: word hostname2 word word