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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Translate grep to awk Post 302752265 by SkySmart on Sunday 6th of January 2013 01:51:37 PM
Old 01-06-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
I do not really see what this all brings, I think I would prefer the two greps to the awk solutions, because they are easier to understand and thus to maintain. One could go even further and put everything in one awk:

Code:
awk '
NR==2,NR==10 {
  if (/error/) {
    if(/memory/) {
      m=m RS $0
      i++
    } 
    else {
      o=o RS $0
      j++ 
    }
  }
} 
END{
  print i m RS j o 
}
' file

This probably would make it more efficient, but one could ask if that is required and the down side is that it is also less simple...


--


Ehm.. I don't agree with that.. SmilieSmilie

thank you!

the thing is, i have a very huge script that uses quite a lot of egreps like those in my first post. however, while the script runs beautifully, i notice there are just too many commands being called in it. commands that, if given thought can be combined into one by a more advanced user. which is why i created this thread.

bipinajith's one-liner solution not only helps to combine the egreps in my post, it also got rid of the sed. so in essence, his awk did what i (not an advanced user) was trying to do with 3 commands (sed, egrep, egrep).

i'm making the modifcations to my script as we speak. and i'll see if the awk solution helps to decrease the script's overall processing time.

btw, can you please combine your awk suggestion into a one-liner? i think its easier to read for a novice if anywhere is in one line. if you can, please explain the code for me.
 

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ZGREP(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep, zegrep, zfgrep -- print lines matching a pattern in gzip-compressed files SYNOPSIS
zgrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [files ...] zegrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [file ...] zfgrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [file ...] DESCRIPTION
zgrep runs grep(1) on files or stdin, if no files argument is given, after decompressing them with zcat(1). The grep-flags and pattern arguments are passed on to grep(1). If an -e flag is found in the grep-flags, zgrep will not look for a pattern argument. zegrep calls egrep(1), while zfgrep calls fgrep(1). EXIT STATUS
In case of missing arguments or missing pattern, 1 will be returned, otherwise 0. SEE ALSO
egrep(1), fgrep(1), grep(1), gzip(1), zcat(1) AUTHORS
Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org> BSD
December 28, 2003 BSD
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