Hello -
QUESTION:
Is there a way to override the default record length limitation over awk in Unix?
Or, is there a better way to do what I am trying to do than the way I am trying to do it now? (See BACKGROUND and CURRENT PROCEDURE below...)
BACKGROUND:
In a Kornshell script, I have... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have a txt file which is an export of a query result from the database. The txt file contains 'Processid#sqlquery' from the database table.As the sqlquery is too long.... i am unable to get the fields seperated using the awk script as below:-
cat sql.txt | awk -F'#' '{printf $2}'... (2 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I wanted to print the length of each record and the record itself.
I tried the following awk ...
awk 'a=length(); {print $a,$0}' file1
But it is giving me the records instead of length.
and also, it giving me each record twice. Means the value of a is not the length of the... (0 Replies)
Hi
I use the following code to read the file and to fix the length of the column of the record in the file 'Sample.txt'
ls Samp* | awk '
{ a=$1 }
END{
FS="n"
for(i=1;i<=NR;i++)
{
while( getline < a )
{
f1=$0;
print("Line::",f1);
f2=substr(f1,1,10)
print("Field1::",f2);... (10 Replies)
Very, very new to unix scripting and have a unique situation. I have a file of records that contain 3 records types:
(H)eader Records
(D)etail Records
(T)railer Records
The Detail records are 82 bytes in length which is perfect. The Header and Trailer records sometimes are 82 bytes in... (3 Replies)
Hi,
The record length may be differ in afile. I want to display the records if the record length is not equal to 50 using sed/awk command.
Thanks in Advance (6 Replies)
Hi all,
We are going through a total migration from AIX-based server framework to Linux-based servers. When I am testing *.sh and *.awk in a lower environments, it abends at the same step everytime in verifying the record length of the first row of the source file.
I know this source file... (11 Replies)
Hi Team,
I have an issue to split the file which is having special chracter(German Char) using awk command.
I have a different length records in a file. I am separating the files based on the length using awk command.
The command is working fine if the record is not having any... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Anthuvan
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
dpkg-awk
DPKG-AWK(1) General Commands Manual DPKG-AWK(1)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.
-d [#]
--debug [#]
Each time this is specified, it increased the debug level.
-s field(s)
--sort field(s)
A space or comma separated list of fields to sort on.
-n field(s)
--numeric field(s)
A space or comma separated list of fields that should be interpreted as numeric in value.
-rs ??
--rec_sep ??
Output this string at the end of each output paragraph.
-h
--help Display some help.
fieldname
The fields from the file, that are matched with the regex given. The fieldnames are case insensitive.
out_fieldname
The fields from the file, that are output for each record. If the first field listed begins with ^, then the list of fields that
follows will NOT be output.
BUGS
Be warned that the author has only a shallow understanding of the dpkg packaging system, so there are probably tons of bugs in this pro-
gram.
This program comes with no warranties. If running this program causes fire and brimstone to rain down upon the earth, you will be on your
own.
This program accesses the dpkg database directly in places, querying for data that cannot be gotten via dpkg.
AUTHOR
Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
DEBIAN Debian Utilities DPKG-AWK(1)