Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi i am trying to replace blank lines with a number 0. I tried the following code
awk '{print NF ? $0: blankrow}' blankrow = "0" file1.prg>file2.prg
however i get the following error: fatal: cannot open file `blankrow' for reading (No such file or directory)
file example:
1
2
3

5

6
file output>
1
2
3
0
5
0
6

- thank u
PS i have also tried using echo "file.prg" |sed's!\" "!\"0"!g' -> results with an error -seds!\" "!\"0"!g: command not found

Remove the spaces around the = sign:

Code:

awk '{print NF?$0:blankrow}' blankrow=0 file1.prg>file2.prg

tried that.. didnt work
bash: awk{print NF?$1:blankrow}blankrow=0: command not found

And why don't you just copy/paste the command above ...
I'm sure you see that the command you run is different.

lol.. thanks.. worked fine... thanks.. wonders of pasting..

had another concern
in the output file.. if i had to add another field with just tab (blank space every line) would
i just say awk '{print NF?$0:blankrow}' blankrow=0; print " "
or awk '{print NF?$0:blankrow}' blankrow=0; print $0 "\t"
output file example:
1 (tab)
2 (tab)
0 (tab)
3 (tab)
4 (tab)
0 (tab)

Code:

 awk '$0=($0?$0:0)"\t"' infile