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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk question Post 302095626 by jerardfjay on Wednesday 8th of November 2006 02:30:00 PM
Old 11-08-2006
awk question
Hello Guru's,

I have a report that prints lines with either 8 columns wide.
The last column #8 for the most part have a three character value.
My requirement is to print the whole record where the last columns value is exactly 3 characters wide and if it does not equal "AAA" or "BBB" or "CCC"

So far this is what I have
Code:
awk '{if (length($8) < 4) print $0}' 20061106_auditlog

gets me all records that have exactly 3 character wide value for column 8.
question is how do I filter within awk for certain types of values that are not "AAA" or "BBB" or "CCC".

Thanks for the help
Jerardfjay
 

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colrm

COLRM(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  COLRM(1)

NAME

     colrm -- remove columns from a file

SYNOPSIS

     colrm [start [stop]]

DESCRIPTION

     The colrm utility removes selected columns from the lines of a file.  A column is defined as a single character in a line.  Input is read
     from the standard input.  Output is written to the standard output.

     If only the start column is specified, columns numbered less than the start column will be written.  If both start and stop columns are spec-
     ified, columns numbered less than the start column or greater than the stop column will be written.  Column numbering starts with one, not
     zero.

     Tab characters increment the column count to the next multiple of eight.  Backspace characters decrement the column count by one.

ENVIRONMENT

     The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of colrm as described in environ(7).

EXIT STATUS

     The colrm utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

     awk(1), column(1), cut(1), paste(1)

HISTORY

     The colrm command appeared in 3.0BSD.

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