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Old 05-30-2011
Power Combining AWK statements
Hello UNIX Community,

I have file that contains the following data:

testAwk2.csv


Code:
rabbit penguin goat 
 giraffe emu ostrich 
 hyena elephant panda
 dog cat pig
 lizard snake antelope
 platypus tiger cheetah
 lion rhino spider

I then find the character length of the second field:

Code:
awk '{print $0, length($2)}' testAwk2.csv 

 rabbit penguin goat  7
 giraffe emu ostrich  3
 hyena elephant panda 8
 dog cat pig 3
 lizard snake antelope 5
 platypus tiger cheetah 5
 lion rhino spider  5

Now I want to only display the fields with more then 3 characters:

Code:
awk '{print $0, length($2)}' testAwk2.csv > testAwk3.csv | awk '$4 > 3' testAwk3.csv > testAwk4.csv

cat testAwk4.csv 

 rabbit penguin goat  7
 hyena elephant panda 8
 lizard snake antelope 5
 platypus tiger cheetah 5
 lion rhino spider  5

This produces the correct answer so no problem there. But is there a way to combine the two awk statements and sort the third field alphabetically at the same time? This is so I can output the operation into just one file rather then
then the many I have created above.

I really would appreciate your help with this.

Many Thanks,

Vnayak
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Old 05-30-2011
Code:
awk 'length($2)>3{print $0, length($2)}' testAwk3.csv | sort -k3,3

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