Hi all,
I would like to replace some columns from file1 with columns from file2. Currently, I'm able to do it with the following command:
awk 'NR==FNR{a=$1;b=$2;c=$3;next;}
{$2=a;$4=b;$5=c;print}' file2 file1 > temp
mv -f temp file1
First, i make the changes and save it as a temp... (1 Reply)
using sed to replace a specific string on a specific line number using variables
this is where i am at
grep -v WARNING output | grep -v spawn | grep -v Passphrase | grep -v Authentication | grep -v '/sbin/tfadmin netguard -C'| grep -v 'NETWORK>' >> output.clean
grep -n Destination... (2 Replies)
I am trying to use sed to replace specific characters at a specific position in the file with a different value... can this be done?
Example:
File:
A0199999123
A0199999124
A0199999125
Need to replace 99999 in positions 3-7 with 88888.
Any help is appreciated. (5 Replies)
HELLO! This is my first post here! By the way, I think it is great that people do this.
My question:
I have two files, one is a .dilm and one is a .txt. It is my understanding that the .dilm file can be treated as a .txt file. I wrote another program where I was able to manipulate it as if it... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I have this text file containing 9 columns separated by space. The 8th columns contains the numbers.
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9
er rt yt gh iu nk il 0.07 xs
yt lr ty bg iu zk nh 0,0005 lt
...etc.
I want to replace the comma with full stop only in 8th coloumn.
the output... (8 Replies)
I'm trying to update a text file via sed/awk, after a lot of searching I still can't find a code snippet that I can get to work.
Brief overview:
I have user input a line to a variable, I then find a specific value in this line 10th field in this case. After asking for new input and doing some... (14 Replies)
I am trying to find a specific set of characters in a long file. I only want to find the characters in column 265 for 4 bytes.
Is there a search for that? I tried cut but couldn't get it to work.
Ex. I want to find '9999' in column 265 for 4 bytes. If it is in there, I want it to print... (12 Replies)
Hi
I have a file which is tab-delimited. Now, I'd like to print the lines which have "chr6" string in both first and second columns. Could anybody help? (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file with hundreds of lines. I want to search for particular lines starting with 4000, search and replace the 137-139 position characters; which will be '000', with '036'. Can all of this be done without opening a temp file and then moving that temp file to the original file name.
... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: dsid
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
igawk
IGAWK(1) Utility Commands IGAWK(1)NAME
igawk - gawk with include files
SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...
DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).
AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like
@include getopt.awk
in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.
OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.
EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk
@include getopt.awk
BEGIN {
while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
...
}
EOF
igawk -f test.awk
SEE ALSO gawk(1)
Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.
AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+--------------------+-----------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Availability | SUNWgawk |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Interface Stability | Volatile |
+--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES
Source for gawk is available on http://opensolaris.org.
Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)