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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to split a field into two fields? Post 302169390 by vbrown on Thursday 21st of February 2008 05:50:31 AM
Old 02-21-2008
Follow up:

Think I have managed to sort out what I want with only a minor modification to user "jim mcnamara" solution:

I used nawk and put </description> as the record delimiter instead of ,

Solution:
nawk -F "</description>" '{
for(i=1; i<NF; i++) {
if($i ~ /<description>/) {
half=length($i)/2;
printf("%s\",\"%s", substr($i,1,half), substr($i,half+1))
}
else {
printf("%s,", $i)
}
}
print $NF }' oldfile > newfile
fi

Thanks so much for your help.

Vicky
 

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NAME

       dpkg-awk - Utility to read a dpkg style db file

SYNOPSIS

       dpkg-awk [(-f|--file) filename] [(-d|--debug) ##] [(-s|--sort) list] [(-rs|--rec_sep) ??] '<fieldname>:<regex>' ... -- <out_fieldname> ..

DESCRIPTION

       dpkg-awk  Parses  a  dpkg status file (or other similarly formatted file) and outputs the resulting records.  It can use regex on the field
       values to limit the returned records, it can also be told which fields to output, and it can sort the matched fields.

OPTIONS

       -f filename
       --file filename
	      The file to parse.  The default is /var/lib/dpkg/status.

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	      Each time this is specified, it increased the debug level.

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	      A space or comma separated list of fields to sort on.

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       --rec_sep ??
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       -h
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