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Old 08-21-2013
Writing a dummy line!!

Hi,
I have a file whihc looks like
Code:
file_1 100 200
file_2 200 300
file_4 400 500

as the file_3 is missing so I want to replace it by
Code:
file_3 0 0

the final output would look like
Code:
file_1 100 200
file_2 200 300
file_3 0 0
file_4 400 500

Any help is highly appreciated.

Regards,

Last edited by Franklin52; 08-21-2013 at 07:56 AM.. Reason: Code tags
# 2  
Old 08-21-2013
Code:
awk '{if("file_"++a==$1) {print} else {while("file_"a!=$1) {print "file_" a++ " 0 0"};print } }'  filename

Shortened version:
Code:
awk '{while("file_"a+1!=$1) {print "file_" a+1 " 0 0";a++} {print;++a}}' filename


Last edited by krishmaths; 08-21-2013 at 07:45 AM..
# 3  
Old 08-21-2013
try also:
Code:
awk '$2!=l+1 {for (i=l+1; i<$2; i++) print $1"_"++l,0,0} {print; l=$2}' FS="[_ ]" infile

# 4  
Old 08-21-2013
Hello,

Could you please try the following also. Here lets say file name file_entry have all the fields as shown by you.

Code:
awk 'NR==3 {print"file_3 0 0"} 1' file_entry


Output will be as follows.

Code:
file_1 100 200
file_2 200 300
file_3 0 0
file_4 400 500
$


Thanks,
R. Singh
 
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