IMHO, "grep TERM hairy_big_log_file.log | grep -v term2 | less" is a script in that it condenses 3 distinct commands into one operation.
OTOH, i think you may want to keep looking... at least for someone within the ops center who's motivated to up their skills. ________________________________________ Joe Shisei Niski Portland, Oregon, USA 至誠 On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Michael Rasmussen <[email protected]>wrote: > Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > > > A call for opinion, or a pseudo poll. > > > > Consider someone at the command line, needs some information, decides > to: > > > > me@server $ for S in `cat list_of_servers`;do echo " $S"; ssh $S > > 'command'; done > > > > In your mind is that scripting? > > There were a couple of calls for context. We're sending some of our > drudge work to an operations center. I've been asked to provide a set of > commands I typically use so they can replicate that aspect of my work. > > Faced with the prospect of sshing to X number of servers to run a command > my habit is to rattle off a one liner for loop like that. If the command > output is short enough I'll start with echo "$S " and end up with a nice > little table for easy review. > > When probing the *nix experience of the people who will be doing the work > this Q&A came up. We had agreed they can diff, grep, df, du and stuff like > that. Then: > > ME: Back to the Unix question - for loops? as in : for Server in `cat > list_of_servers`; do echo $Server; ssh $Server 'some command'; done > > THEM: Nope, as of now we don't have knowledge on scripting and if ... > > And so I asked here. > > And now I'm wondering if: > > grep TERM hairy_big_log_file.log | grep -v term2 | less > > is called scripting > > Though I will accept that > > grep TERM humongous_file.log | grep ^2014 | cut -d: -f 1 | uniq -c > > does fit. > > and yes > > egrep "^2014.*TERM" ... > > is in the vocabulary. > > > -- > Michael Rasmussen > Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
