I need to pick a field out of a variable record - the field is always found 4 fields after a certain text string, but it can be on any line of the record and in any position across the record on a line. I have had no luck through any of the Unix editors being able to cut a field that isn't always... (17 Replies)
Hi, all.
I need to convert a file tab delimited/variable length file in AIX to a fixed lenght file delimited by spaces. This is the input file:
10200002<tab>US$ COM<tab>16/12/2008<tab>2,3775<tab>2,3783
19300978<tab>EURO<tab>16/12/2008<tab>3,28523<tab>3,28657
And this is the expected... (2 Replies)
Very, very new to unix scripting and have a unique situation. I have a file of records that contain 3 records types:
(H)eader Records
(D)etail Records
(T)railer Records
The Detail records are 82 bytes in length which is perfect. The Header and Trailer records sometimes are 82 bytes in... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I'm new to unix, i have a variable length file like below,
01|Test|Test1|Sample|
02|AA|BB|CC|DD|
03|AAA|BBB|CCC|DDD|EEE|RRR|TTT|SSS|YYY|
I need to make this as a fixed length file. Assume that i have 10 columns in the DAT file.
for ex: the first 01 record is having 4cols -... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I have a No Delimiter variable length text file with following schema -
Column Name Data length
Firstname 5
Lastname 5
age 3
phoneno1 10
phoneno2 10
phoneno3 10
sample data - ... (16 Replies)
Hello,
I have a file with a date field with various lengths. For example:
m/d/yyyy hh:mm or h:mm
mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm or h:mm
Is there a way using sed or awk to change the field to m/d/y ? I don't need the hours and minutes in that field, just the date in the proper format.
Thanks in... (6 Replies)
Hi,
Extremely new to Perl scripting, but need a quick fix without using TEXT::CSV
I need to read in a file, pass any delimiter as an argument, and convert it to bar delimited on the output. In addition, enclose fields within double quotes in case of any embedded delimiters.
Any help would... (2 Replies)
My requirment is for every record of a particular file I've to check for a record delimeter (e.g. "\n") and if any row doesn't have "\n" then report it in error file .
Please suggest me to go through this. (4 Replies)
Hi Team,
I have an issue to split the file which is having special chracter(German Char) using awk command.
I have a different length records in a file. I am separating the files based on the length using awk command.
The command is working fine if the record is not having any... (7 Replies)
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igawk
IGAWK(1) Utility Commands IGAWK(1)NAME
igawk - gawk with include files
SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...
DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).
AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like
@include getopt.awk
in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.
OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.
EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk
@include getopt.awk
BEGIN {
while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
...
}
EOF
igawk -f test.awk
SEE ALSO gawk(1)
Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.
AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).
Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)