Hi!

How can I print out a specific range of rows, like "cat file | awk NR==5,NR==9", but in the END-statement?

I have a small awk-script that finds specific rows in a file and saves the line number in an array, like this:


awk '
BEGIN { count=0}

/ZZZZ/ {
list[count]=NR
counter++
}

END {
print "Total of:" count " rows."
for (i in list) {
print "Row: " list[i] ## Here, also print the actual row with linenr:list[i].
}
}
' infile.txt





Any help would be much appreciated.
//Bugenhagen

if you want a range

I think this can help you. Suppose you want to print the line from MIN to MAX:

Hi!
Thank You for answering.

I need to do the print-out in the END-statement, when NR is already at the last row.

This is because my lineNr-array is quite large and every number is the begining of a group of rows that I need to print out.

So if the array is: "120,140,166,178, ..." , I would need to decide in END how many stanzas that will be printed to a file. After that, I will take the next group of stanzas and print them to a new file.

So is it possibe to do something like:

"set NR=list[i]; print"

//Bugenhagen

Hi, i think what you want is difficult to realize.

1>the NR has gone to the last line.
2>At the END module for awk, it has gone to the end of the file, so you can not re-hold the line of the file

So,my suggestion for you is:
1> try to remember all the desired rows in first awk
2>awk again

Could you please post a sample input and output ?

Hi!

Input file is from AIX/nmon.
(This is a cut-down version)
-----------------------------------------------------
AAA,progname,nmon_aix53# <-------Header starts here
AAA,command,/usr/local/bin/nmon_aix53 -f -t -s 10 -c 8640
AAA,version,v10r
AAA,build,AIX53
AAA,disks_per_line,150
BBBB,0026,hdisk31,unknown,Hitachi-HDS
BBBB,0027,hdisk32,unknown,Hitachi-HDS
BBBC,014,LV NAME LPs PPs DISTRIBUTION MOUNT POINT
BBBC,015,hd2 28 28 28..00..00..00..00 /usr
BBBP,2523,oslevel
ZZZZ,T0001,00:11:18,25-JUL-2007# <----------Body starts here
CPU01,T0001,32.9,19.0,11.7,36.5
CPU02,T0001,0.9,0.7,0.2,98.1
CPU03,T0001,53.3,10.5,5.6,30.6
CPU04,T0001,0.1,0.6,0.0,99.3
CPU05,T0001,31.2,5.1,0.7,63.1
ZZZZ,T0003,00:11:38,25-JUL-2007# <----------Next stanza in body
CPU01,T0003,44.3,4.3,0.6,50.8
CPU02,T0003,0.0,0.0,0.0,100.0
CPU03,T0003,45.2,0.0,0.0,54.8
CPU04,T0003,0.0,0.0,0.0,100.0
CPU05,T0003,19.7,0.0,0.0,80.3
BBBP,2524,ending vmstat -v# <----------------Footer starts here
BBBP,2525,ending vmstat -v," 20709370 memory pages"
BBBP,2526,ending vmstat -v," 19954046 lruable pages"
BBBP,2527,ending vmstat -v," 748541 free pages"
--------------------------------------------------------


So I would like to:
Put header in file1.
Put all stanzas (starting with ZZZZ) for a specific hour in file1.
Put footer in file1.

Next.
Put header in file2.
Put all stanzas for next hour in file2.
Put footer in file2.

Cont. until EOF.


//Br Bugenhagen