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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Awk adding a space between integer and the rest of the field Post 302244878 by cfajohnson on Wednesday 8th of October 2008 11:33:23 PM
Old 10-09-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by a2156z
what if string="10W2 Street" ?
The upon script won't work well.
string="10w3c street"
num=${string%%[A-Za-z ]*}
street=${string##"$num"}
printf "%s %s" "$num" "$street"

The output of that script is:

Code:
10 w3c street

Or, with the other string:

Code:
10 w2 street

Isn't that what is wanted?

If not, then the problem was not adequately specified (and the only answer may be to open a text editor and fix the file manually).

 

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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

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       gram.

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       own.

       This program accesses the dpkg database directly in places, querying for data that cannot be gotten via dpkg.

AUTHOR

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