Comparing unknown number of variable in bash - bash

I have 1 to 4 linux server names in a configuration file, I will have to take those names out of the configuration file and assign them values (Floating point Value derived from linux commands). Now the number of server taken out of the configuration file may vary depending on the server availability(For example if a server is down for some reason we will remove the server from configuration file or comment it out) so Fixed number of server is 4 but it may reduce based on its availability, how do I compare the values derived and find out the least/minimum out of this ? It will be great if someone could provide suggestions on this.

To compare two floating point numbers you can use bc. It will print (not return) 0 for false and 1 for true statements:
$ bc <<< '2.01 > 2.1'
0
$ bc <<< '2.1 > 2.01'
1
$ bc <<< '2.01 >= 2.1'
0
$ bc <<< '2.01 >= 2.01'
1

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Faster way of Appending/combining thousands (42000) of netCDF files in NCO

I seem to be having trouble properly combining thousands of netCDF files (42000+) (3gb in size, for this particular folder/variable). The main variable that i want to combine has a structure of (6, 127, 118) i.e (time,lat,lon)
Im appending each file 1 by 1 since the number of files is too long.
I have tried:
for i in input_source/**/**/*.nc; do ncrcat -A -h append_output.nc $i append_output.nc ; done
but this method seems to be really slow (order of kb/s and seems to be getting slower as more files are appended) and is also giving a warning:
ncrcat: WARNING Intra-file non-monotonicity. Record coordinate "forecast_period" does not monotonically increase between (input file file1.nc record indices: 17, 18) (output file file1.nc record indices 17, 18) record coordinate values 6.000000, 1.000000
that basically just increases the variable "forecast_period" 1-6 n-times. n = 42000files. i.e. [1,2,3,4,5,6,1,2,3,4,5,6......n]
And despite this warning i can still open the file and ncrcat does what its supposed to, it is just slow, at-least for this particular method
I have also tried adding in the option:
--no_tmp_fl
but this gives an eror:
ERROR: nco__open() unable to open file "append_output.nc"
full error attached below
If it helps, im using wsl and ubuntu in windows 10.
Im new to bash and any comments would be much appreciated.
Either of these commands should work:
ncrcat --no_tmp_fl -h *.nc
or
ls input_source/**/**/*.nc | ncrcat --no_tmp_fl -h append_output.nc
Your original command is slow because you open and close the output files N times. These commands open it once, fill-it up, then close it.
I would use CDO for this task. Given the huge number of files it is recommended to first sort them on time (assuming you want to merge them along the time axis). After that, you can use
cdo cat *.nc outfile

Extract a string that is located above and nearest to the matching pattern in a multiline output

Below is the HP ssacli command to see configured hardware RAID details:
ssacli ctrl slot=0 show config
and its output is as below:
HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR Gen10 in Slot 0 (Embedded)
Internal Drive Cage at Port 1I, Box 1, OK
Internal Drive Cage at Port 2I, Box 0, OK
Port Name: 1I (Mixed)
Port Name: 2I (Mixed)
Array A (Solid State SAS, Unused Space: 0 MB)
logicaldrive 1 (447.10 GB, RAID 1, OK)
physicaldrive 1I:1:1 (port 1I:box 1:bay 1, SAS SSD, 480 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 1I:1:2 (port 1I:box 1:bay 2, SAS SSD, 480 GB, OK)
SEP (Vendor ID HPE, Model Smart Adapter) 379 (Port: Unknown)
I have to figure out the Array name in order to delete it by searching for the matching disk info which I get as input from the user. For example if the disk input is 1I:1:1, then I have to search this string in the output of the above command. Since this disk is available and matching, I have to extract the Array name (here it is A) and once I get this Array parameter then I can go ahead delete this existing RAID configuration.
ssacli ctrl slot=0 show config | grep -B 4 '1I:1:1' | grep Array | awk '{print $2}'
The problem with the above command is,
value 4 in the grep -B cannot be always constant as the matching disk may come first, second or third or so on under an Array in the output.
there may be multiple RAID array configurations available in the output, so there may be Array A, B, C etc., I have to find and retrieve the nearest Array string that matches my input disk
I think your requirement could be simply solved with a single usage of awk. You store the disk name as a variable to be passed and first store the array names as you go through the list of lines. Once you do a match of the actual disk name, you print the array you just stored. So pipe your command output to
| awk -v disk="1I:1:1" '/^[[:space:]]*Array/{ array=$2; } $0 ~ disk { print array; exit }'
This answer assumes that the array names do not contain spaces or else it would be broken and would print the first part of the array name only.
You can process the file from the end:
tac infile \
| awk -v input='1I:1:1' '$0 ~ input {flag=1} flag && /Array/ {print $2; exit}'
This sets a flag when encountering a line matching the user input; after that, if a line matches Array and the flag is set, the second field is printed.

How to resume reading a file?

I'm trying to find the best and most efficient way to resume reading a file from a given point.
The given file is being written frequently (this is a log file).
This file is rotated on a daily basis.
In the log file I'm looking for a pattern 'slow transaction'. End of such lines have a number into parentheses. I want to have the sum of the numbers.
Example of log line:
Jun 24 2015 10:00:00 slow transaction (5)
Jun 24 2015 10:00:06 slow transaction (1)
This is easy part that I could do with awk command to get total of 6 with above example.
Now my challenge is that I want to get the values from this file on a regular basis. I've an external system that polls a custom OID using SNMP. When hitting this OID the Linux host runs a couple of basic commands.
I want this SNMP polling event to get the number of events since the last polling only. I don't want to have the total every time, just the total of the newly added lines.
Just to mention that only bash can be used, or basic commands such as awk sed tail etc. No perl or advanced programming language.
I hope my description will be clear enough. Apologizes if this is duplicate. I did some researches before posting but did not find something that precisely correspond to my need.
Thank you for any assistance
In addition to the methods in the comment link, you can also simply use dd and stat to read the logfile size, save it and sleep 300 then check the logfile size again. If the filesize has changed, then skip over the old information with dd and read the new information only.
Note: you can add a test to handle the case where the logfile is deleted and then restarted with 0 size (e.g. if $((newsize < size)) then read all.
Here is a short example with 5 minute intervals:
#!/bin/bash
lfn=${1:-/path/to/logfile}
size=$(stat -c "%s" "$lfn") ## save original log size
while :; do
newsize=$(stat -c "%s" "$lfn") ## get new log size
if ((size != newsize)); then ## if change, use new info
## use dd to skip over existing text to new text
newtext=$(dd if="$lfn" bs="$size" skip=1 2>/dev/null)
## process newtext however you need
printf "\nnewtext:\n\n%s\n" "$newtext"
size=$((newsize)); ## update size to newsize
fi
sleep 300
done

Sampling without replacement using awk

I have a lot of text files that look like this:
>ALGKAHOLAGGATACCATAGATGGCACGCCCT
>BLGKAHOLAGGATACCATAGATGGCACGCCCT
>HLGKAHOLAGGATACCATAGATGGCACGCCCT
>DLGKAHOLAGGATACCATAGATGGCACGCCCT
>ELGKAHOLAGGATACCATAGATGGCACGCCCT
>FLGKAHOLAGGATACCATAGATGGCACGCCCT
>JGGKAHOLAGGATACCATAGATGGCACGCCCT
>POGKAHOLAGGATACCATAGATGGCACGCCCT
Is there a way to do a sampling without replacement using awk?
For example, I have this 8 lines, and I only want to sample 4 of these randomly in a new file, without replacement.
The output should look something like this:
>FLGKAHOLAGGATACCATAGATGGCACGCCCT
>POGKAHOLAGGATACCATAGATGGCACGCCCT
>ALGKAHOLAGGATACCATAGATGGCACGCCCT
>BLGKAHOLAGGATACCATAGATGGCACGCCCT
Thanks in advance
How about this for a random sampling of 10% of your lines?
awk 'rand()>0.9' yourfile1 yourfile2 anotherfile
I am not sure what you mean by "replacement"... there is no replacement occurring here, just random selection.
Basically, it looks at each line of each file precisely once and generates a random number on the interval 0 to 1. If the random number is greater than 0.9, the line is output. So basically it is rolling a 10 sided dice for each line and only printing it if the dice comes up as 10. No chance of a line being printed twice - unless it occurs twice in your files, of course.
For added randomness (!) you can add an srand() at the start as suggested by #klashxx
awk 'BEGIN{srand()} rand()>0.9' yourfile(s)
Yes, but I wouldn't. I would use shuf or sort -R (neither POSIX) to randomize the file and then select the first n lines using head.
If you really want to use awk for this, you would need to use the rand function, as Mark Setchell points out.
To obtain random samples from a text file, without replacement, means that once a line has been randomly selected (sampled) it cannot be selected again. Thus, if 10 lines of 100 are to be selected, the ten random line numbers need to be unique.
Here is a script to produce NUM random (without replacement) samples from a text FILE:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# random-samples.sh NUM FILE
# extract NUM random (without replacement) lines from FILE
num=$(( 10#${1:?'Missing sample size'} ))
file="${2:?'Missing file to sample'}"
lines=`wc -l <$file` # max num of lines in the file
# get_sample MAX
#
# get a random number between 1 .. max
# (see the bash man page on RANDOM
get_sample() {
local max="$1"
local rand=$(( ((max * RANDOM) / 32767) + 1 ))
echo "$rand"
}
# select_line LINE FILE
#
# select line LINE from FILE
select_line() {
head -n $1 $2 | tail -1
}
declare -A samples # keep track of samples
for ((i=1; i<=num; i++)) ; do
sample=
while [[ -z "$sample" ]]; do
sample=`get_sample $lines` # get a new sample
if [[ -n "${samples[$sample]}" ]]; then # already used?
sample= # yes, go again
else
(( samples[$sample]=1 )) # new sample, track it
fi
done
line=`select_line $sample $file` # fetch the sampled line
printf "%2d: %s\n" $i "$line"
done
exit
Here is the output of a few invocations:
./random-samples.sh 10 poetry-samples.txt
1: 11. Because I could not stop for death/He kindly stopped for me 2,360,000 Emily Dickinson
2: 25. Hope springs eternal in the human breast 1,080,000 Alexander Pope
3: 43. The moving finger writes; and, having writ,/Moves on571,000 Edward Fitzgerald
4: 5. And miles to go before I sleep 5,350,000 Robert Frost
5: 6. Not with a bang but a whimper 5,280,000 T.S. Eliot
6: 40. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan 594,000 Coleridge
7: 41. The quality of mercy is not strained 589,000 Shakespeare
8: 7. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams 4,860,000 W.B. Yeats
9: 42. They also serve who only stand and wait 584,000 Milton
10: 48. If you can keep your head when all about you 447,000Kipling
./random-samples.sh 10 poetry-samples.txt
1: 38. Shall I compare thee to a summers day 638,000 Shakespeare
2: 34. Busy old fool, unruly sun 675,000 John Donne
3: 14. Candy/Is dandy/But liquor/Is quicker 2,150,000 Ogden Nash
4: 45. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers 521,000Shakespeare
5: 9. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair 3,080,000 Shelley
6: 11. Because I could not stop for death/He kindly stopped for me 2,360,000 Emily Dickinson
7: 46. If music be the food of love, play on 507,000 Shakespeare
8: 44. What is this life if, full of care,/We have no time to stand and stare 528,000 W.H. Davies
9: 35. Do not go gentle into that good night 665,000 Dylan Thomas
10: 15. But at my back I always hear 2,010,000 Marvell
./random-samples.sh 10 poetry-samples.txt
1: 26. I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree. 1,080,000 Joyce Kilmer
2: 32. Human kind/Cannot bear very much reality 891,000 T.S. Eliot
3: 14. Candy/Is dandy/But liquor/Is quicker 2,150,000 Ogden Nash
4: 13. My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun 2,230,000Shakespeare
5: 42. They also serve who only stand and wait 584,000 Milton
6: 24. When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes 1,100,000Shakespeare
7: 21. A narrow fellow in the grass 1,310,000 Emily Dickinson
8: 9. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair 3,080,000 Shelley
9: 10. Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all 2,400,000 Tennyson
10: 31. O Romeo, Romeo; wherefore art thou Romeo 912,000Shakespeare
Maybe it's better to sample the file using a fixed schema, like sampling one record each 10 lines. You can do that using this awk one-liner:
awk '0==NR%10' filename
If you want to sample a percentage of the total, then you can program a way to calculate the number of rows the awk one-liner should use so the number of records printed matches that quantity/percentage.
I hope this helps!

fastest hashing in a unix environment?

I need to examine the output of a certain script 1000s of times on a unix platform and check if any of it has changed from before.
I've been doing this:
(script_stuff) | md5sum
and storing this value. I actually don't really need "md5", JUST a simple hash function which I can compare against a stored value to see if its changed. Its okay if there are an occassional false positive.
Is there anything better than md5sum that works faster and generates a fairly usable hash value? The script itself generates a few lines of text - maybe 10-20 on average to max 100 or so.
I had a look at fast md5sum on millions of strings in bash/ubuntu - that's wonderful, but I can't compile a new program. Need a system utility... :(
Additional "background" details:
I've been asked to monitor the DNS record of a set of 1000 or so domains and immediately call certain other scripts if there has been any change. I intend to do a dig xyz +short statement and hash its output and store that, and then check it against a previously stored value. Any change will trigger the other script, otherwise it just goes on. Right now, we're planning on using cron for a set of these 1000, but can think completely diffeerently for "seriously heavy" usage - ~20,000 or so.
I have no idea what the use of such a system would be, I'm just doing this as a job for someone else...
The cksum utility calculates a non-cryptographic CRC checksum.
How big is the output you're checking? A hundred lines max. I'd just save the entire original file then use cmp to see if it's changed. Given that a hash calculation will have to read every byte anyway, the only way you'll get an advantage from a checksum type calculation is if the cost of doing it is less than reading two files of that size.
And cmp won't give you any false positives or negatives :-)
pax> echo hello >qq1.txt
pax> echo goodbye >qq2.txt
pax> cp qq1.txt qq3.txt
pax> cmp qq1.txt qq2.txt >/dev/null
pax> echo $?
1
pax> cmp qq1.txt qq3.txt >/dev/null
pax> echo $?
0
Based on your question update:
I've been asked to monitor the DNS record of a set of 1000 or so domains and immediately call certain other scripts if there has been any change. I intend to do a dig xyz +short statement and hash its output and store that, and then check it against a previously stored value. Any change will trigger the other script, otherwise it just goes on. Right now, we're planning on using cron for a set of these 1000, but can think completely diffeerently for "seriously heavy" usage - ~20,000 or so.
I'm not sure you need to worry too much about the file I/O. The following script executed dig microsoft.com +short 5000 times first with file I/O then with output to /dev/null (by changing the comments).
#!/bin/bash
rm -rf qqtemp
mkdir qqtemp
((i = 0))
while [[ $i -ne 5000 ]] ; do
#dig microsoft.com +short >qqtemp/microsoft.com.$i
dig microsoft.com +short >/dev/null
((i = i + 1))
done
The elapsed times at 5 runs each are:
File I/O | /dev/null
----------+-----------
3:09 | 1:52
2:54 | 2:33
2:43 | 3:04
2:49 | 2:38
2:33 | 3:08
After removing the outliers and averaging, the results are 2:49 for the file I/O and 2:45 for the /dev/null. The time difference is four seconds for 5000 iterations, only 1/1250th of a second per item.
However, since an iteration over the 5000 takes up to three minutes, that's how long it will take maximum to detect a problem (a minute and a half on average). If that's not acceptable, you need to move away from bash to another tool.
Given that a single dig only takes about 0.012 seconds, you should theoretically do 5000 in sixty seconds assuming your checking tool takes no time at all. You may be better off doing something like this in Perl and using an associative array to store the output from dig.
Perl's semi-compiled nature means that it will probably run substantially faster than a bash script and Perl's fancy stuff will make the job a lot easier. However, you're unlikely to get that 60-second time much lower just because that's how long it takes to run the dig commands.

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