I have been trying to use awk with variables that needs to search for a pattern and replace it with another pattern, the patterns are supplied in a variable. I have tried several different ways without success and hope that someone can help me. Here are the details
and when I try the following command to search for $UPC in $line1 and replace it with $ITEM, using awk I dont get desired results.
Code:
echo $line1 | awk -v srch="$UPC" repl="$ITEM" '{ sub(srch,repl,$0); print $0 }'
awk: 0602-533 Cannot find or open file { sub(srch,repl,$0); print $0 }.
The source line number is 1.
Dear All,
I want to search and replace the text in file using awk. but facing hard luck in that.
Please help me out!!!!
> grep Abc.De.ync.rate /tmp/sdosanjh.txt
Abc.De.ync.rate 6 write
Now, I want to replace the "6" with value say "2".
I... (5 Replies)
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Hello,
I really would appreciate some help with a bash script for some string manipulation on an SQL dump:
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Suchen und Ersetzen mit AWK
hello,
i'm not good in scripting and asking for your help.
With this script i change some text parts in diffent datafiles. It works without problems, but i need to get some informations about what changes in wich datafiles happend. This could be in character of a... (3 Replies)
Hello everybody:
I want to replace any field $2 of any file line (f.i. test.txt) matching $1 with a shell variable.
$ cat test.txt
F 0
B A
H -12.33
Now I'm going to ask the value of variable B:
$ SEARCHVAR=B
$ OLDVAL=$(awk -v SEARCHVAR="$SEARCHVAR"... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I need to extract all the content between two strings stored in two variables "startstring" and "endstring"
startstring=hello
enstring=world
#notworking
awk '/$startstring/, $NF ~ /$endstring/ ' file > file2
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Can I use awk to search for a string, passed from the shell, that might include metacharacters?
File1 entries: Bob Marley Jammin (Bonus Track).mp3
File2 entries: Bob Marley Jammin (Bonus Track).mp3 32000 /Music/Bob Marley/ Jammin (Bonus Track).mp3
So far, I have this;
$ sed -e... (9 Replies)
Hello,
I'm trying the solve the following problem.
I have a file which I intend to use as a csv called master.csv
The columns are separated by commas.
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I have a file which requires modification via a shell script.
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Hi Shell Tigers,
I am trying to acheive search and replace strings within a setup file.
Help much appreciated.
test.setup
ORACLE_HOME=/oracle/product/11.0.0/home01
PATH1=/perm_loc/3222/FTP/cfg1
PATH2=/perm_loc/3222/FTP/cfg2/bin
PATH3=/perm_loc/3222/FTP/cfg3/bin
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
english
English(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide English(3pm)NAME
English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation variables
SYNOPSIS
use English;
use English qw( -no_match_vars ) ; # Avoids regex performance penalty
# in perl 5.16 and earlier
...
if ($ERRNO =~ /denied/) { ... }
DESCRIPTION
This module provides aliases for the built-in variables whose names no one seems to like to read. Variables with side-effects which get
triggered just by accessing them (like $0) will still be affected.
For those variables that have an awk version, both long and short English alternatives are provided. For example, the $/ variable can be
referred to either $RS or $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR if you are using the English module.
See perlvar for a complete list of these.
PERFORMANCE
NOTE: This was fixed in perl 5.20. Mentioning these three variables no longer makes a speed difference. This section still applies if
your code is to run on perl 5.18 or earlier.
This module can provoke sizeable inefficiencies for regular expressions, due to unfortunate implementation details. If performance matters
in your application and you don't need $PREMATCH, $MATCH, or $POSTMATCH, try doing
use English qw( -no_match_vars ) ;
. It is especially important to do this in modules to avoid penalizing all applications which use them.
perl v5.18.2 2014-01-06 English(3pm)