Thanks Rushton. But I am not asking about how to use awk. Awk can not
be used inside rsyslog configuration, afaik.
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Rushton Martin <JMRUSHTON@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You need to set up the AWK script as part of a pipeline:
>
> ... | awk '{ print $1, $2, $3, $4, substr($0, index( $0, ">")) }' | ...
>
> By the way, if you are not familiar with AWK:
> 1) The outer brackets are curly brackets
> 2) The inner two sets are parenthesis
> 3) There should be no space between "substr" and the left parenthesis
> or between "index" and its parenthesis.
>
> man awk will give you lots of information!
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of C. L. Martinez
> Sent: 27 April 2012 11:55
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> Subject: Re: UC OT: Rewrite part of a message with rsyslog
>
> Thanks Rushton, but where I put this sentence?? I need to do this action before rsyslog sends message to another syslog server ...
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Rushton Martin <JMRUSHTON@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Use AWK:
>>
>> { print $1, $2, $3, $4, substr($0, index( $0, ">") }
>>
>> Explanation:
>> AWK will split the line up on white space, so printing $1, $2, $3, $4
>> will give you
>> "27April2012 10:33:44 172.1.2.2 data" single spaced. The substr
>> expression will return the rest of the input line ($0) unchanged from
>> the right arrow.
>>
>> Martin Rushton
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>> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of C. L. Martinez
>> Sent: 27 April 2012 11:39
>> To: CentOS mailing list
>> Subject: OT: Rewrite part of a message with rsyslog
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Sorry for the off-topic, but I have not found how to do this. I have
>> installed a centos6 server to act as a syslog receiver. I need to
>> rewrite all messages that comes from one server. For example a part of
>> the message is:
>>
>> "27April2012 10:33:44 172.1.2.2 data >". Sometimes between 27April2012
>> and 10:33:44 comes with one white space, sometimes with two, etc. I
>> need to normalize this log to use only one white space between all
>> fileds until ">" character.
>>
>> Somebody knows how can I do this??
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