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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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mcxquery

mcxquery(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					       mcxquery(1)

NAME

     mcxquery -- Managed Client (MCX) compositor query tool

SYNOPSIS

     mcxquery [options] [-user recordName] [-group recordName] [-computer spec]

	      options:

	      -o path			 Writes output to a file at the specified path.

	      -format space | tab | xml  Specifies the format of the output.

	      -computerOnly		 Ignore values for -user and -group.

	      -useCache 		 Return the cached computer settings in the local node if they are available.

	      -raw			 Dumps Directory Service data for records contributing to managed preferences.

	      -forApple 		 Convenience for specifying options when sending bug reports to Apple. Currently enables "-raw" and "-for-
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DESCRIPTION

     mcxquery is a utility to determine the effective managed preferences for a user logging in to a workgroup from a specific computer.

     -user	Specify the short name of the user record to read managed preferences from. If this parameter is omitted, or a value of "=" speci-
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     -group	Specify the short name of the group record to read managed preferences from. A value of "=" may be specified to mean the name of
		the workgroup (if any) chosen for the current login session.

     -computer	Specify the computer record to read managed preferences from. The computer can be specified using either an Ethernet MAC address
		(e.g. "11:22:33:44:55:66"), a Hardware UUID (e.g. "00112233-4455-6677-8899-AABBCCDDEEFF") or the short name of the computer record
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EXAMPLES

     mcxquery -user jane -group science -computer lab1_12
	      Displays the managed preferences that would be in effect if user "jane" logged in using workgroup "science" from the computer speci-
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	      Ethernet MAC address of 11:22:33:44:55:66.

     mcxquery -user = -group = -computer guest
	      Displays the managed preferences that would be in effect if the current user logged in using the current workgroup into a computer
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     mcxquery -user jane -group math
	      Displays the managed preferences that would be in effect if the user "jane" logged into the "math" workgroup on the current com-
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