Wednesday 30 March 2022

Grep AND awk

The context for this is that I'm working with the IBM Cloud CLI tool, specifically the Infrastructure Services plugin to find a specific subset of images, from which I can instantiate a Virtual Server Instrance (VSI).

Given this, I wanted to list the images in a specific region and filter by those that: -

- Run on the IBM Z Linux platform, aka s390x **AND**

- Are based upon Ubuntu **AND**

- Are available rather than deprecated

I started with this: -

ic is images

( where ic is an alias for the ibmcloud plugin )

and then filtered using a set of nested grep calls: -

ic is images | grep s390x | grep ubuntu | grep available

r134-0568bd44-e2b7-4876-bcbf-b74b244d3b66   ibm-ubuntu-18-04-1-minimal-s390x-2                 available    s390x   ubuntu-18-04-s390x                   18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Minimal Install                      2               public       provider     none         -

r134-77d54c6d-5071-4729-ac79-a26c7404866a   ibm-ubuntu-18-04-6-minimal-s390x-3                 available    s390x   ubuntu-18-04-s390x                   18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Minimal Install                      2               public       provider     none         -

r134-622ffa9c-47e1-450f-9a02-4f0567b7139f   ibm-ubuntu-20-04-2-minimal-s390x-2                 available    s390x   ubuntu-20-04-s390x                   20.04 LTS Focal Fossa Minimal Install                        2               public       provider     none         -

r134-323e4b0e-118b-4199-8d0b-745c05a75194   ibm-ubuntu-20-04-2-minimal-s390x-enclaved-2        available    s390x   ubuntu-20-04-s390x-enclaved          20.04 LTS Focal Fossa Minimal Install for Secure Execution   2               public       provider     none         -

but that's not very elegant

I knew how to use the OR operator in grep e.g.

ic is images | grep "s390x\|ubuntu"

but that's not what I want; I want AND rather that OR

This helped: -

How to run grep with multiple AND patterns?

In other words, use awk rather than grep, as per this: -

ic is images | awk '/s390x/ && /ubuntu/ && /available/'

r134-0568bd44-e2b7-4876-bcbf-b74b244d3b66   ibm-ubuntu-18-04-1-minimal-s390x-2                 available    s390x   ubuntu-18-04-s390x                   18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Minimal Install                      2               public       provider     none         -

r134-77d54c6d-5071-4729-ac79-a26c7404866a   ibm-ubuntu-18-04-6-minimal-s390x-3                 available    s390x   ubuntu-18-04-s390x                   18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Minimal Install                      2               public       provider     none         -

r134-622ffa9c-47e1-450f-9a02-4f0567b7139f   ibm-ubuntu-20-04-2-minimal-s390x-2                 available    s390x   ubuntu-20-04-s390x                   20.04 LTS Focal Fossa Minimal Install                        2               public       provider     none         -

r134-323e4b0e-118b-4199-8d0b-745c05a75194   ibm-ubuntu-20-04-2-minimal-s390x-enclaved-2        available    s390x   ubuntu-20-04-s390x-enclaved          20.04 LTS Focal Fossa Minimal Install for Secure Execution   2               public       provider     none         -

which is much better

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