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Old 10-01-2009
how to deleting except the patern in a file
Hello respected members,

I have a file wich has several fields separated by space. I want to remove all the fields which are not the client_name.
I mean the field which are not "pfizer","csx" and "mafoi". And the deletion action will be taken place from the 3rd field(including the third field).


my input file looks like

Code:
quality hardware csx pfizet honda kiuty
hardware quality pfizer name 
newyork quality mafoi pfizer  working csx


my output shoul be like this:

Code:
quality hardware csx pfizet 
hardware quality pfizer  
newyork quality mafoi pfizer  csx

can it will be done by awk.

thanks in advance

manabhanjan
# 2  
Old 10-01-2009
one way:

Code:
#  cat infile
quality hardware csx pfizet honda kiuty
hardware quality pfizer name
newyork quality mafoi pfizer  working csx

#  nawk '{t=$1" "$2;for (i=3;i<=NF;i++){ if (index("csx pfizer mafoi",$i)){t=t" "$i}} print t;t=""}' infile
quality hardware csx
hardware quality pfizer
newyork quality mafoi pfizer csx

(Not quite the same as your output as it removes the "pfizet" on line 1, which I'm guessing was a minro typo ?)

HTH
Last edited by Tytalus; 10-01-2009 at 06:17 AM.. Reason: minor typo
# 3  
Old 10-01-2009
Thanks tytalus vey much.

great............

i just typed wrongly pfizer to pfizet

regards,
mana

---------- Post updated at 03:02 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:53 PM ----------

The privious was working correctly not this one you modified by using index.

---------- Post updated at 03:09 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:02 PM ----------

Hi tytalus,

the code you gave i am facing little problem.
Code:
nawk '{t=$1" "$2;for (i=3;i<=NF;i++){ if (index("csx pfizer mafoi",$i)){t=t" "$i}} print t;t=""}' infile

here if a field is pizerghki or csx_hello_name ,these are also selected .
i want the field only csx not csx_hello which is not csx.

regards,
manabhanjan

---------- Post updated at 03:12 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:09 PM ----------

I have modified the code my self and it is now working fine .

thank you tytalus .
 
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