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Re: Perl solution
by shmem (Chancellor) on Jan 27, 2008 at 19:54 UTC

Seriously, what problems do you have, what did you try, did you read the PerlMonks FAQ and not stumble over How do I post a question effectively? Hard to believe.

For a starter,

netstat -e | perl -ple 's/\s\s+/\t/' > file.csv
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writes the output of netstat -e into a tab delimited csv file. You have to tweak the regular expression used in that snippet according to the spec.

What spec? Ah, uhm, wait, er...

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Re^2: Perl solution

by pilcrow (Sexton) on Jan 28, 2008 at 06:15 UTC

netstat -e | perl -ple 's/\s\s+/\t/' > file.csv

Very likely an intended g modifier is missing from that s///. Of course, without a problem specification, who can say for sure that the g is needed? :)

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Re^2: Perl solution

by apotheon (Deacon) on Jan 28, 2008 at 03:21 UTC

a tab delimited csv file

I think you mean "a tsv file". A csv file is, by definition, comma delimited. A better version would probably be something like this:

  netstat -e | perl -ple 's/\s\s+/,/' > file.csv
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. . . and, of course, neither of our versions are exactly perfect/complete.

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Re^3: Perl solution

by robot_tourist (Hermit) on Jan 28, 2008 at 15:49 UTC

You are certainly not wrong, but it could be argued that csv became a 'backronym' of Character Separated Values.

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Re^2: Perl solution

by Gavin (Archbishop) on Jan 30, 2008 at 16:33 UTC

** or Cockup Operations Corrector

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Re: Perl solution
by citromatik (Curate) on Jan 28, 2008 at 16:28 UTC

Alternatively, you can feed your script with the output of netstat -e opening a pipe:

use strict;
use warnings;

open NETSTAT, "netstat -e |" or die $!;
while (<NETSTAT>){
   # process the line
   # Output to csv
}

close NETSTAT;
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