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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Selectively Reformating a file using AWK Post 302300167 by vgersh99 on Monday 23rd of March 2009 11:33:58 AM
Old 03-23-2009
# default fields '2 5 8'
nawk -f sda.awk myFile

# specified fields: '1 3 9'
nawk -v fld='1 3 9' -f sda.awk myFile

sda.awk:
Code:
BEGIN {
  fld=(fld=="")? "2 5 8":fld
  n=split(fld, a, FS)
}
{
     rec=(rec=="")?$0:rec OFS $0
}
!(FNR%3){
     rN=split(rec, recA, OFS)
     rec=""
     for(i=1; i<=n; i++)
       printf("%s%c", recA[a[i]], (i==n) ? ORS : OFS)
}

 

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Time::CTime(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					    Time::CTime(3)

NAME
Time::CTime -- format times ala POSIX asctime SYNOPSIS
use Time::CTime print ctime(time); print asctime(localtime(time)); print strftime(template, localtime(time)); strftime conversions %% PERCENT %a day of the week abbr %A day of the week %b month abbr %B month %c ctime format: Sat Nov 19 21:05:57 1994 %d DD %D MM/DD/YY %e numeric day of the month %f floating point seconds (milliseconds): .314 %F floating point seconds (microseconds): .314159 %h month abbr %H hour, 24 hour clock, leading 0's) %I hour, 12 hour clock, leading 0's) %j day of the year %k hour %l hour, 12 hour clock %m month number, starting with 1 %M minute, leading 0's %n NEWLINE %o ornate day of month -- "1st", "2nd", "25th", etc. %p AM or PM %r time format: 09:05:57 PM %R time format: 21:05 %S seconds, leading 0's %t TAB %T time format: 21:05:57 %U week number, Sunday as first day of week %w day of the week, numerically, Sunday == 0 %W week number, Monday as first day of week %x date format: 11/19/94 %X time format: 21:05:57 %y year (2 digits) %Y year (4 digits) %Z timezone in ascii. eg: PST DESCRIPTION
This module provides routines to format dates. They correspond to the libc routines. &strftime() supports a pretty good set of coversions -- more than most C libraries. strftime supports a pretty good set of conversions. The POSIX module has very similar functionality. You should consider using it instead if you do not have allergic reactions to system libraries. GENESIS
Written by David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com>. The starting point for this package was a posting by Paul Foley <paul@ascent.com> LICENSE
Copyright (C) 1996-1999 David Muir Sharnoff. License hereby granted for anyone to use, modify or redistribute this module at their own risk. Please feed useful changes back to muir@idiom.com. perl v5.12.1 2004-02-08 Time::CTime(3)
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