Posts Tagged: awk

Bash to Python – Playing with CSV

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In the past I have been too willing to use bash scripts for grepping and awking CSV files. The code snippet below is a starter for doing similar with python and while far from perfect, demonstrates calling another system command and manipulating strings:

Joining Multi-line Output with Paste

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I was checking the memory on approximately 140 servers using ansible: ansible –user root -k -i servers.list -m shell -a “free -h; mysql” test but the output appears over several lines e.g. server103.domain.dev | SUCCESS | rc=0 >> total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 94G 44G 49G 59M 203M 4.6G -/+ buffers/cache: 39G 54G… Read more »