gawk asort to sort record groups based on one subfield
input ("/" delimited fields):
Records with same field 1 belong to the same group.
Using asort (not sort), in each group I need to sort the records in ascending order based on the string between braces in field 2, to obtain:
I tried to sort the records by field1 and then by subfield2 in field2, but it didn't work:
I am using a solution that was provided by a member:
awk '{s=$0;if(length(s) < 700){getline; s=s " " $0}printf("%s\n",s)}'
This scans through a file and removes '\n' within a record but not the record delimiter.
However, there are instances where there are MULTIPLE instances of '\n'... (10 Replies)
Hi Guys,
After windows died on my netbook I installed Lubuntu and discovered Gawk about a month ago. After using Excel for 10+ years I'm amazed how quick and easily Gawk can process data but I'm stuck with a little problem merging data from multiple lines.
I'm an SEO Consultant and provide... (9 Replies)
Input_file_1
#content_1
A
#content_2
AF
#content_3
AAR
#content_4
ASEI
#content_5
AS
#content_6
ADFSFGS
Rules:
1. Based on c program to calculate content of each "#". Result getting from the above Input_file_1 are 1,2,3,4,2,7;
2. Sort length on reverse order (descending order).... (5 Replies)
I've been searching high and low for this...but, maybe I'm just missing something. I have a file to be sorted that, unfortunately, contains binary data at the end of the line. As you may guess, this binary data may contain a newline character, which messes up the sort. I think I could resolve this... (5 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I've really searched for a solution to this and this is what I found so far:
I need to sort a command output (here represented as a "cat file" command) and from the second down to the second-last line based on the second row and then print ALL the output with the specified section... (7 Replies)
Hello,
I have the following script :
BEGIN {
print "1 ***";
split("abc",T,"");
T="e";
T="z";
T="y";
for (i in T) printf("%i:%s ",i,T); print "";
for (i=1; i<=length(T); i++) printf(T); print ""
print "2 ***";
asort(T,U);
for (i in U) printf("%i:%s ",i,U); ... (3 Replies)
Hi
I'd like to extract from a text file, using gawk, the groups of words beginning with a capital letter, that are not at the begining of a sentence (i.e. Not after a full stop and a pace ". "), including special characters like registered or trademark (® or ™ ).
For example I would like to... (1 Reply)
Output from zipdiff GNU EAR comparison tool produces output in html divided into three sections "Added, Removed, Changed". I want the output to be sorted by jar or war file.
<html>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td class="diffs" colspan="2">Added </td>
</tr>
<tr><td>
<ul>... (5 Replies)
Hi,
PROCINFO seems to be a great function but I don't manage to make it works.
input:
B,A,C
B
B,B
As an example, just want to count the occurence of each letter across the input and sort them by decreased order.
Wanted output:
B 4
A 1
C 1
When I use this command, the PROCINFO... (4 Replies)
Hi, I have some data I have taken from the internet in the following scheme:
name
direction
webpage
phone number
open hours
menu url
book url
name
...
Of course the only line that is mandatory is the name wich is the one I want to sort by.
I have the following sed & awk script that... (3 Replies)
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igawk
IGAWK(1) Utility Commands IGAWK(1)NAME
igawk - gawk with include files
SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...
DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).
AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like
@include getopt.awk
in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.
OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.
EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk
@include getopt.awk
BEGIN {
while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
...
}
EOF
igawk -f test.awk
SEE ALSO gawk(1)
Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.
AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).
Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)