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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk/sed column replace using column header - help Post 302206374 by jkl_jkl on Tuesday 17th of June 2008 02:11:57 PM
Old 06-17-2008
I feel I explained my query in a wrong way. Let me explain again:

Input file:

Code:
$ cat log.txt
Name Age Sex Lcation nfld alias xsd
CC 25 M XYZ asx KK Y
BB 21 F XAS awe SS N
SD 21 M AQW rty SD A

How can I replace the column with header "Lcation" with the column with header "alias" and delete the alias column?

Required output:

Code:
Name Age Sex alias nfld xsd
CC 25 M KK asx Y
BB 21 F SS awe N
SD 21 M SD rty A

I don't want to use field number because my actual file contains more than 70 fields and the field positions are not fixed(the above log.txt is just a sample). Thats why I am looking for a solution which replaces based on column header.

Please help.
Last edited by jkl_jkl; 06-17-2008 at 03:27 PM.. Reason: added color
 

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COLORGCCRC(5)							File Formats Manual						     COLORGCCRC(5)

NAME

       colorgccrc - configuration file for colorgcc

DESCRIPTION

       A colorgccrc configuration file is used to configure the highlighting of the compiler output from colorgcc.

SYNTAX

       Each  line  consists  of  a  keyword  designating  a configuration variable.  The keyword is followed by `:' and then one or several values
       (depending on the keyword).  Lines beginning with a hash mark `#' are comments.

CONFIGURATION VARIABLES

       g++ | gcc | c++ | cc | g77 | gcj | gnat | gpc
	      Specifies the paths to the compilers.  Takes one value; a path to the compiler.

       nocolor
	      Specifies what terminal types colorization should be disabled on.  Takes one or several values, separated by whitespace.

       srcColor
	      Specifies the highlighting attributes source-code should be given.  Takes one or several color attributes.  See  the  section  COLOR
	      ATTRIBUTES for more information.

       introColor
	      Specifies  the  highlighting  attributes	for normal compiler output.  Takes one or several color attributes.  See the section COLOR
	      ATTRIBUTES for more information.

       warningFileNameColor | errorFileNameColor
	      Specifies the highlighting attributes for the filename in a  warning  or	an  error,  respectively.   Takes  one	or  several  color
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       warningNumberColor | errorNumberColor
	      Specifies  the  highlighting  attributes	for  the  line-number  in a warning or an error, respectively.	Takes one or several color
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       warningMessageColor | errorMessageColor
	      Specifies the highlighting attributes for the message-text in a warning or an error,  respectively.   Takes  one	or  several  color
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SEE ALSO

       gcc(1), colorgcc(1)

HISTORY

       Jan 15 2003: Initial version of this manual-page.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <jmoyers@geeks.com>

AUTHORS

       Jamie Moyers <jmoyers@geeks.com> is the author of colorgcc.

       This  manual  page  was	written  by Joe Wreschnig <piman@sacredchao.net>, and modified by David Weinehall <tao@debian.org>, for the Debian
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