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Print all indented Lines following a non-indented Line

30. September 2025 in GNU/Linux, Programming.

Some configuration and output text formats contain sections like the following:

foo:
   value1
   value2
bar:
   value 3

In this article, two scripts are presented that print all consecutive indented lines that follow a non-indented line that matches a search pattern given by a regular expression.

This means, given the single argument foo and the standard input above, the scripts should

determine the line that matches foo and
print the following two lines, but no other lines.

Also, the indentation of the printed lines should be removed.

Urlaubsbilder aus der Ostschweiz

19. August 2023 in Other.

Ein paar Fotos aus der Ostschweiz, Kantone St. Gallen und Appenzell Innerrhoden:

Blick aus dem Hotelfenster auf St. Gallen Hauptbahnhof

Donnerstag morgens in St. Gallen Altstadt

St. Gallen Altstadt spät abends

Ein Laden in Appenzell

Blick das Rheintal hinauf (links des Rheins ist Liechtenstein)

Bergblumen

Bergblumen am Gipfel des Hohen Kastens, vor den Fenstern des Drehrestaurants

Panorama West-Süd-Südost vom Hohen Kasten

Blick aufs Appenzeller Land, aufgenommen von der Terrasse des Restaurants Waldegg in Teufen

Blick auf den Bodensee aus einem Fenster des Rohrschacher Museums im Kornhaus

Hauptstraße in Rohrschach

Maintaining Multi-Line “stat” Formats using Bourne Again Shell

7. November 2024 in GNU/Linux, Programming.

The stat command from GNU core utilities features not only a --format FORMAT option but also a --printf FORMAT one, the difference being that the latter allows for backslash escapes such as \n.

This allows for custom per-file report formats containing newlines, for example:

stat --printf 'Name: %n\nSize: %s Bytes\n' /etc/passwd

If the format string becomes more complex, the command line soon becomes unwieldy, such as:

stat --printf 'Name: %n\nOwner ID: %u\nSize: %s Bytes\nLast accessed: %x\n' /etc/passwd

Make a Bourne Again Shell Script Log its Output to a File

23. November 2024 in Administration, GNU/Linux, Programming.

The Bourne Again Shell script presented in this article demonstrates techniques related to capturing and logging output (standard output and standard error stream) of a script into a log file while also delivering it to the regular output destinations (for example the terminal or whatever the caller has chosen to redirect to).

If you are just interested in the Bourne Again Shell code example, click here.

In the following, some questions are addressed:

How to “clone” standard output and standard error stream of a shell script to a single log file?
Are the messages from both streams interleaved into a single file in the appropriate order?
Can a script perform output cloning for some portions of its procedure while skipping it for others?
Are there specific requirements for output that is to be cloned to a file?
Are there best practices when a script modifies its own output redirections?

The example provided below has been tested on GNU/Linux using GNU “bash” version 5 and “tee” version 8.32 from GNU coreutils. It uses the Bash-only feature of process substitution. An implementation in POSIX Shell (possibly using only POSIX tools) would be more difficult.

Using sed or awk to ensure a specific last Line in a Text

20. August 2023 in GNU/Linux, Programming.

Given a file containing bytes of text with lines separated by the newline character (\n), one of these lines can be said to be “the last line of the file”; it is a sequence of bytes occurring in the file, for which holds:

The sequence contains no newline character, and
the sequence is followed by at most one newline character and no other bytes.

The task at hand is, using shell utilities, to write a procedure that makes sure that a given file contains a last line that contains a desired sequence of text characters.

dnf install qemu-guest-agent

On Debian-likes, execute:

apt install qemu-guest-agent

For Microsoft Windows guests, there are some tutorials on the web, see for example [1].

On the HV, execute:

virsh qemu-agent-command --domain myvm \
    '{"execute":"guest-network-get-interfaces"}' | \
    jq -r '
        [.return[] | select(.name!="lo") | ."ip-addresses"] | flatten |
        .[] | select(."ip-address-type"=="ipv4")."ip-address"
    '

The output should be one IPv4 address per line.

If you are interested in IPv4 and IPv6 addresses instead, just skip the “select” filter:

virsh qemu-agent-command --domain myvm \
    '{"execute":"guest-network-get-interfaces"}' | \
    jq -r '
        [.return[] | select(.name!="lo") | ."ip-addresses"] | flatten |
        .[]."ip-address" '

Print all indented Lines following a non-indented Line

Urlaubsbilder aus der Ostschweiz

Maintaining Multi-Line “stat” Formats using Bourne Again Shell

Make a Bourne Again Shell Script Log its Output to a File

Using sed or awk to ensure a specific last Line in a Text

Fotos von Palma de Mallorca und Umgebung

I went to CLT23 …

Determine IPv4 Addresses of a Libvirt Qemu-KVM Domain