cfajohnson, unfortunately I cannot post a copy of the data because I am not allowed, confidential info. The only reason I know that these chars are causing a problem is because I get an on line message: ./counter.sh line 5: printf: `w: invalid format
As the message says, you are using an invalid format character with printf.
The syntaxt for printf is:
What you need is:
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and this is repeated for characters that I have mentioned in my initial posting. The contents of counter.sh is:
Please put code inside code tags.
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Don't use sed for every line in a file; it will be extremely slow.
Use sed on the entire file and work on its output.
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let counter=counter+1
Use the standard form for arithmetic:
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Also you mention that I could use only one command instead of three for extarcting the data. Could you please specify? I am new to scripting so any help would be greatly appreciated.
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...
B 16 1.340E+05
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Wu123 1.365E+02
...
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1001 sajal singh tampa
1002 .... so on
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Hi
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txtcode SYStem100
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