But by guessing what you are trying to do in the above script, I think you can simplify it a lot. At least in the second part, after the user input. Piping head into awk is useless. awk can easily emulate head. Give us more input on file to process, like a typical output of command iostat that I don't have on my linux box.
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Hi ,
I have a file having around 8 columns spereated by space . Now that I need to extract columns from this. The problem is this functionality is needed in a script and the required columns are dynamic and can range from 2 columns to 8 columns at a time .
What I tried without luck is ... (6 Replies)
Hello,
I have a matrix 200*10,000 and I need to extract the columns between 40 and 77. I dont want to write in awk all the columns. eg: awk '{print $40, $41, $42,$43 ... $77}'. I think should exist a better way to do this. (10 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a text file which looks like below.
################################################
Name:xxxxxxx
Version:1.0
Class: 2
City : Bangalore
Component Part Action Nb New Part Naming Part Name
12345 default 12345.12345 Bad
23456 ... (6 Replies)
hi everyone!
I already posted it in scripts, I'm sorry, it's doubled
I'd like to extract a single column from 5 different files and put them together in an output file. I saw a similar question for 2 input files, and the line of code workd very well, the code is:
awk 'NR==FNR{a=$2; next}... (1 Reply)
hi everyone!
I'd like to extract a single column from 5 different files and put them together in an output file. I saw a similar question for 2 input files, and the line of code workd very well, the code is:
awk 'NR==FNR{a=$2; next} {print a, $2}' file1 file2
I added the file3, file4 and... (10 Replies)
Hello,
I am obviously quite new to unix and awk. I need to parse certain columns of a file (delimited by spaces), and somehow save the value of this column somewhere, together with the value of the column just after it (by pairs; so something like ).
I'm then supposed to count the times that... (9 Replies)
Hi everyone!!
I need to apply a simple command to extract columns from a matrix, but I need to extract contemporary from the first to the tenth columns, than from the eleventh to the twentyth and so on...
how can i do that? (1 Reply)
Hello All
I'm joining two files using Awk by Left outer join on the file 1
File 1
1 AA
2 BB
3 CC
4 DD
File 2
1 IND 100 200 300
2 AUS 400 500 600
5 USA 700 800 900 (18 Replies)