Hello again,
I'm trying to write a small shell script which watches the FTP log (/var/log/xferlog) and sends e-mail when a file is uploaded.
The problem I have: How to extract path and file names which contain spaces (or possibly other special characters)?
I know that the field in the log which follows the path/file name always has the string "uploaded". I can determine which field matches the string "uploaded". Since I also know which field contains the beginning of the path (if it contains spaces), I can find the fields which make up the entire path and thus return the correct path/file name.
Is this a reasonable approach?
If yes, how can I assign the returned value to a variable name? For example:
I'd like to do something like:
Which of course doesn't work.
Would you please advise?
I'm trying to write a small shell script which watches the FTP log (/var/log/xferlog) and sends e-mail when a file is uploaded.
The problem I have: How to extract path and file names which contain spaces (or possibly other special characters)?
I know that the field in the log which follows the path/file name always has the string "uploaded". I can determine which field matches the string "uploaded". Since I also know which field contains the beginning of the path (if it contains spaces), I can find the fields which make up the entire path and thus return the correct path/file name.
Is this a reasonable approach?
If yes, how can I assign the returned value to a variable name? For example:
$ echo $field
Code:
8I'd like to do something like:
Code:
awk '{print $($field)}'Which of course doesn't work.
Would you please advise?
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