Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: AWK in column search
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting AWK in column search Post 302350672 by imipsita.rath on Friday 4th of September 2009 01:48:30 PM
Old 09-04-2009
AWK in column search

Hi friends ,
I am new to unix ,need your help to fix this
there is a ~ deliminated file. how to find the 5th column of the row.
Code:
awk  'print $5 ' abc.txt

it doesnot work . it works for table deliminated file. My data file is like the following manner.
abc.txt
--------
Code:
a~b~c~d~e~f
a1~b1~c1~d1~e1~f1

my out put should be
Code:
e
e1

regards
ipsita

Last edited by vgersh99; 09-04-2009 at 03:01 PM.. Reason: code tags, PLEASE!
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Search for a column by name in awk

Hi, I have a file that has many columns. Let us say "Employee_number" "Employee_name" "Salary". I want to display all entries in a column by giving all or part of the column name. For example if I input "name" I want all the employee names printed. Is it possible to do this in a simple manner... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: kskkarthik
2 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

awk search column, print line

Hello. I've been banging my head against walls trying to search a comma delimited file, using awk. I'm trying to search a "column" for a specific parameter, if it matches, then I'd like to print the whole line. I've read in multiple texts: awk -F, '{ if ($4 == "string") print $0 }'... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Matthias03
2 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

To search a word in particular column using awk

I have a data in a file like this 1 praveen bmscollege 2 shishira bnmit 3 parthiva geethamce I want to search "praveen" using awk command i tried like this but i did not get awk `$2="praveen" {print $0} ` praveen.lst can anyone help me solving this problem in... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: praveenhegde
2 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

awk/sed to search & replace data in first column

Hi All, I need help in manipulating the data in first column in a file. The sample data looks like below, Mon Jul 18 00:32:52 EDT 2011,NULL,UAT Jul 19 2011,NULL,UAT 1] All field in the file are separated by "," 2] File is having weekly data extracted from database 3] For eg.... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: gr8_usk
8 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

awk strings search + print next column after match

Hi, I have a file filled with search strings which have a blank in between and look like this: S. g. Ehr. o. Jg. v. d. Chijs g. Ehr. Now i would like to search for the strings and it also shall return the next column after the match. awk -v FILE="search_strings.txt" 'BEGIN {... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: sdf
10 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

awk or grep to search one column and output the other

Hello, it would be great if someone can help me with the following: I want to search for the rows from fileA in column 1 of fileB and output column 2 of fileB if found in fileC. In the moment I search within the complete file. How can I change the code so only column 1 is searched? cat fileA... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Manyaka
7 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

awk : search last index in specific column

I am trying to search a given text in a file and find its last occurrence index. The task is to append the searched index in the same file but in a separate column. I am able to accomplish the task partially and looking for a solution. Following is the detailed description: names_file.txt ... (17 Replies)
Discussion started by: tarun.trehan
17 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

awk search pattern in column

Want to search a pattern in column using the below command which not helpful awk -F"\|" '$1 == '"${VAR}"' {print $1,$2}' file how to search using "==" with variable other than the below case. awk -F"\|" '$1 ~ /'"${VAR}"'/ {print $1,$2}' file (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: Roozo
14 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

awk search and replace nth column by using a variable.

I am passing a variable and replace nth value with the variable. I tried using many options in awk command but unable to ignore the special characters in the output and also unable to pass the actual value. Input : "1","2","3" Output : "1","1000","3" TempVal=`echo 1000` Cat... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: onesuri
2 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Search for string in column using variable: awk

I'm interested to match column pattern through awk using an external variable for data: -9 1:751343:T:A -9 0 T A 0.726 -5.408837e-03 9.576603e-03 7.967536e-01 5.722312e-01 -9 1:751756:T:C -9 0 T C 0.727 -5.360458e-03 9.579447e-03 7.966977e-01 5.757858e-01... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: genome
7 Replies
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). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 06:27 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy