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Old 10-23-2006
Question help me to to insert data

hi,
am new to unix can any one help me to insert data to afile to a specified
column.

ie to an output file with csv format i should insert some data to 2,3,4 fileds and the data in those fields should move to next fields

eg:
output file

asd,12,12,12,12,1,2,1,1,1,1,1
mnmn,1,12,1,1,1,112,12,1,1,1


insert data

after asd 33,44
after mnmn 55,66


ie required o/p

asd,33,44,12,12,12,12,1,2,1,1,1,1,1
mnmn,55,66,1,12,1,1,1,112,12,1,1,1
# 2  
Old 10-23-2006
Code:
nawk -F, -v OFS=',' -v asd='33,44' -v mnmn='55,66' '$1 == "asd" || $1 == "mnmn" '$1 == "asd" || $1 == "mnmn" {$1= $1 OFS (($1==asd) ? asd : mnmn)}1' myFile.txt


Last edited by vgersh99; 10-23-2006 at 08:45 AM..
# 3  
Old 10-23-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by babu@shell
hi,
am new to unix can any one help me to insert data to afile to a specified
column.

ie to an output file with csv format i should insert some data to 2,3,4 fileds and the data in those fields should move to next fields

eg:
output file

asd,12,12,12,12,1,2,1,1,1,1,1
mnmn,1,12,1,1,1,112,12,1,1,1


insert data

after asd 33,44
after mnmn 55,66


ie required o/p

asd,33,44,12,12,12,12,1,2,1,1,1,1,1
mnmn,55,66,1,12,1,1,1,112,12,1,1,1
clarify a few things...the data u'll be inserting will be in a file? n the no. of rows in that file is equal to the no. of rows in the file to which u wanna insert?

i mean, if u have 10 rows in the file u want to change, u want to insert data into all the 10 rows n in a sequential manner?
# 4  
Old 10-23-2006
hi vgersh99


can u plz explain ur code? for a newbie, its difficult to understand the latter half of the code..
# 5  
Old 10-23-2006
hi

thanks napolean,

the inputs will be in afile and one more thing

the input we search for asd or mnmn and insert accordingly
this will takes place for earch search
# 6  
Old 10-23-2006
can u exp the code
# 7  
Old 10-23-2006
hi
i am getting an error

as below

insert: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `('
insert: line 1: `nawk -F, -v OFS=',' -v asd = '33,44' -v mnmn = '55,66' '$1 == "asd" || $1 == "mnmn" '$1 == "asd" || $1 == "mnmn" { $1= $1 OFS (( $1 == asd ) ? asd : mnmn )}1' myFile.txt'
 
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