Here's a simpler approach that only uses AWK (and which I should've suggested from the beginning):
You can change what's in red to suit your needs, but leave the rest as is.
Changing the quotes as you say you did completely changes the meaning of the code; using double quotes at the outer level causes every instance of a dollar sign folowed by a digit to be expanded by the shell instead of being passed literally to AWK for its use. AWK will never see them. Also, you are altering what is quoted and what is not quoted by creating unintended quoted strings with the double quotes that were embedded in the single quotes which were removed.
I have the following situation :
i have 4 Unix Sco servers, one Windows 2000 server, and an ADSL internet connection. All the servers, that is the 4 unix and the windows server have real static IPs supplied by my ISP.
the servers are connected to a Switch , the switch is connected to an... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I'm working on an application that bridges together several applications involved in creating a video workflow for editing with digital cinema cameras. The main platform is MacOSX.
Because of the nature of some of the utilities for working with this video footage I must spoof filenames... (2 Replies)
Hi,
This is the Third thread i'm putting here for the same problem. :(
Actually, i'm trying a script like this.. but its taking a long time.. about 3 days to complete fully..
#!/bin/ksh
if
then
exit 1
fi
while read i
do
while read j
do
field7=`echo $j|cut -d "|"... (12 Replies)
hi i am trying to perform some calculations with awk and arrays. i have this so far:
awk 'NR==FNR{ for(i=1; i<=NF; i++) {array+=$i} tot++;next}
{for(i=1; i<=NF; i++) {avg=array/tot} {diff=(array - avg)}} {for(i=1; i<=NF; i++) {printf("%5.8f\n",diff)}}' "$count".txt "$count".ttt >... (4 Replies)
I'm at wits end with this issue and my troubleshooting leads me to believe it is a problem with the file formatting of the array referenced by my script:
awk -F, '{if (NR==FNR) {a=$4","$3","$2}\
else {print a "," $0}}' WBTSassignments1.txt RNCalarms.tmp
On the WBTSassignments1.txt file... (2 Replies)
Dear All,
I am facing problem to get right output through awk program
I have file in which “B” value is appearing multiple time and I need to capture all these values.
My script is
BEGIN { FS=" " }
{
if ( substr($1,1,5) == "START" )
{
i =... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Im trying to count bats flying through an infrared beam array. One of the experts here helped me a few months ago but now I am having a problem that is stumping me.
here is the original code that works (with two differnt patterns in array):
# this has been changed to operate under the... (15 Replies)
I am trying to map values in the input file, where 2nd column depends on the specific value in the 1st column. When 1st column is A place 1 into 2nd column, when it is B, place 2, when C place 3, otherwise no change.
My input:
U |100|MAIN ST |CLMN1|1
A |200|GREEN LN |CLMN2|2
1 |12... (4 Replies)
Hi, I have a problem with awk array when iam trying to use awk in solaris box as below..Iam unable to figure out the problem..
Need your help. is there any alternative to make it in arrays from variable values
nawk 'BEGIN {SUBSEP=" ";
split("101880|110045 101887|110045 101896|110045... (9 Replies)
I am trying to reformat the table by filling any missing rows. The final table will have consecutive IDs in the first column. My problem is the index of the associate array in the awk script.
infile:
S01 36407 53706 88540
S02 69343 87098 87316
S03 50133 59721 107923... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: yifangt
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paste
paste(1) General Commands Manual paste(1)Name
paste - merge file data
Syntax
paste file1 file2...
paste -dlist file1 file2...
paste -s [-dlist] file1 file2...
Description
In the first two forms, concatenates corresponding lines of the given input files file1, file2, etc. It treats each file as a column or
columns of a table and pastes them together horizontally (parallel merging).
In the last form, the command combines subsequent lines of the input file (serial merging).
In all cases, lines are glued together with the tab character, or with characters from an optionally specified list. Output is to the
standard output, so it can be used as the start of a pipe, or as a filter, if - is used in place of a file name.
Options
- Used in place of any file name, to read a line from the standard input. (There is no prompting).
-dlist Replaces characters of all but last file with nontabs characters (default tab). One or more characters immediately following -d
replace the default tab as the line concatenation character. The list is used circularly, i. e. when exhausted, it is reused. In
parallel merging (i. e. no -s option), the lines from the last file are always terminated with a new-line character, not from the
list. The list may contain the special escape sequences:
(new-line), (tab), \ (backslash), and (empty string, not a null
character). Quoting may be necessary, if characters have special meaning to the shell (for example, to get one backslash, use
-d"\\" ).
Without this option, the new-line characters of each but the last file (or last line in case of the -s option) are replaced by a
tab character. This option allows replacing the tab character by one or more alternate characters (see below).
-s Merges subsequent lines rather than one from each input file. Use tab for concatenation, unless a list is specified with -d
option. Regardless of the list, the very last character of the file is forced to be a new-line.
Examples
ls | paste -d" " -
list directory in one column
ls | paste - - - -
list directory in four columns
paste -s -d"
" file
combine pairs of lines into lines
Diagnostics
line too long
Output lines are restricted to 511 characters.
too many files
Except for -s option, no more than 12 input files may be specified.
See Alsocut(1), grep(1), pr(1)paste(1)