Thanks for your reply. This works, but is there a way to force awk to see
in specific line and column?
I think something like and IF statement similar to
I ask in this way because the content in other columns different to column 3 is variable depending the file I´m processing.
Hi there could someone explain what is happening in the following function/statement for me, im just a little confused
code = 'BEGIN{FS=","}
{
printf ("%-11s,%s%s%s,%07.2f,%14s,%-3s\n",$1,substr($2,9,2),substr($2,6,2),substr($
2,3,2),$9,$10,$12)
}
this function is called later in the... (2 Replies)
I am trying to print the remaing fields and field numbers beginning with a field 'xyz'
#cat abc
test1:test2:xyz:test3:test4:test5
#cat def
test1:test2:test3:xyz:test4:test5
desired output is to be able to print NF and any trailing fields separated by':'
test3 3
or
test4 3
or
test5... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Have to check file names in some given directory.
SO, What is the right syntax here:
*$3*=="'$object_list'" - just wanted to check if $3 is in the object_list.
And also, Do I need so many quotes around? (5 Replies)
When i tyr this, it gives me a syntax error...i tried removing quotes,removing spaces,replacing -eq with '='.. Can somebody suggest that is the problem?
if ]; then (4 Replies)
Hi All,
can some one figure out the syntax issue here. How to overcome this?
#!/bin/sh
$ HFR_MAIL=NO
$ PRP_MAIL=NO
$ MC_MAIL=NO
$ if && && ]; then
> echo "NO "
> else
> echo "YES"
> fi
test: unknown operator NO
$ if && && ]; then
> echo "NO"
> else
> echo "YES"
>... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Can someone give me an example of how to use zsh's ternary operator?
I tried:
# a=1
# c=( a ? "true" : "false" )
and got:
zsh: no matches found: ?
I'm running zsh 4.2 on RHEL AS 4.
Thanks!
Paul (1 Reply)
Hi
I use awk command to delete the first blanc line of a file:
awk '/^$/ && !f{f=1;next}1' infile > outfile
can somebody please explain me what the last "1'" in !f{f=1;next}1' stands for... Thansk a lot -A (3 Replies)
hi,
i have a bash script that i want to receive a a string from another bash file. But because the string has a dot in the middle it gives me an error. The error is in this line:
let valor=$1
and the value passed is rules.txt
the error is:
let: valor=rules.txt: syntax error: invalid... (2 Replies)
Hello all,
I am writing up an input file and I was hoping I could get some guidance as to how to best consolidate these 2 awk statements for 1 while loop.
Here's my input file
# cat databases.lst
#NOTE: These entries are delimited by tabs "\t"
#oracleSID name/pass
#
db11 ... (2 Replies)
split($7,a," "); date = a; time = a
split(date,d,"/"); month = sprintf("%02d",d); day = sprintf("%02d",d); year = 2000 + d % 100
split(time,t,":"); hour=t; min=t
hour >= 12? { hour=hour-12; amPm=" PM" } : amPM=" AM"
hour == 0? hour=12
time=sprintf("%02d",hour)":"sprintf("%02d",min)amPm
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Michael Stora
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)