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Old 10-26-2007
can Awk split my field on the .

I am trying to pull data out of a file to execute a series of repetitive commands. One of the fields is a {hex number}.{hex number} pattern. I need the first part of that structure to pass into the command. The file structure is like this:

A 2007/10/20 09:50:00 li text ef6da.1 name 8888.1 99999 path
A 2007/10/20 09:55:00 li text fa57.2a4b8 name 7777.1 99998 path

What i need to do is output a command line for each entry like:

request -p ef6da -m li -v 99999 path
request -p fa57 -m li -v 99998 path

What I am having problems with is splitting the first part of the 6th field, I need the portion prior to the period and not the part after. My attempt has stymied at:

cat filename | awk '{printf "request -p %s -m li -v %s path", $6, $9}' > outfile

I have been trying to modify the field within this format and can't get it to work. MY BRAIN IS FRIED

ANY help would be appreciated. Running on solaris 9 so I have awk, sed, & perl available.
 

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get_filename(3alleg4)						  Allegro manual					     get_filename(3alleg4)

NAME
get_filename - Returns a pointer to the filename portion of a path. Allegro game programming library. SYNOPSIS
#include <allegro.h> char *get_filename(const char *path); DESCRIPTION
Finds out the filename portion of a completely specified file path. Both `' and `/' are recognized as directory separators under DOS and Windows. However, only `/' is recognized as directory separator under other platforms. Example: get_executable_name(name, sizeof(name)); allegro_message("Running `%s' ", get_filename(name)); Note that Allegro won't perform any IO operations during the verification. This means that if you have `/a/path/like/this/', which doesn't have a filename, the function will return a pointer to the trailing null character. However, if you have `/a/path/like/this', Allegro will return a pointer to `this', even if it is a valid directory. RETURN VALUE
Returns a pointer to the portion of `path' where the filename starts, or the beginning of `path' if no valid filename is found (eg. you are processing a path with backslashes under Unix). SEE ALSO
get_extension(3alleg4), put_backslash(3alleg4), replace_filename(3alleg4), exmidi(3alleg4) Allegro version 4.4.2 get_filename(3alleg4)
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