Hi people, My apologies on the somewhat novice question. Please bear with me. We regularly get snmp data from our routers the format is below.
col-1 col-2 col-3 col-4 col-5 col-6 col-7 col-8
23/10/2003 00:00 00:04:19 302 0.26 1.18 3617.13 657.42 2959.71 29
23/10/2003 00:00 00:24:30 315 0.67 0.86 3804.99 1665.32 2139.67 28
col-1 - Sample Time
col-2 - "Delta Time"
col-3 - "Bandwidth Utilization In %"
col-4 - "Bandwidth Utilization Out %"
col-5 - "Bytes/sec Util"
col-6 - "Bytes In" "/sec"
col-7 - "Bytes Out" "/sec"
col-8 - latency
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I currently use the following commands to generate the gnuplot graps of the columns im intrested in. I put this series of commands in a executable file called 'stats' and run it by doing ./stats
**********COMMAND***************
awk '{ print $1, $4, $5 }' RTP*Theale*B* | sed 's/"/ /g' | sed 's/,/ /g' > theale-B; awk '{ print $1, $2 }' theale-B > data-in; awk '{ print $1, $3 }' theale-B > data-out; ./graph

RTP*Theale*B* - file that contains snmp data

theale-B - file to pipe into

data-in and data-out - made the file name generic to save me having to manaully input all the time

graph(Chart:Graph module) - executable that plots graph taken in the data in/out has input

But each time I run this stats script(dont know wether to call it a script or not) I have to manually input the file(RTP*Theale*B*) and the file to pipe into (theale-B).
Is it possible to modify this script to ask for input for the file names without having to open it with vi and modify.
My apologies again but I am quite desperate for help. Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated.
regards,
gab

In reply to modifying script to ask for file name as input by gabjones

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