1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Been struggling with a problem, I have been trying to do this in awk, but am unable to figure this out, I think arrays have to be used, but unsure how to accomplish this. I have a input file that looks like this: 141;ny;y;g 789;ct;e;e 23;ny;n;u 45;nj;e;u 216;ny;y;u 7;ny;e;e 1456;ny;e;g... (3 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Guys, OK so i have been trying figure this all all day, i guess its a pretty easy way to do it. Right, so i have to column of data which i have gotten from one huge piece of data. What i would like to do is to put both of these into one array using awk. Is this possible?? If so could... (1 Reply)

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now its owkring - thanks fo rthe help all . (7 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear Scripting experts, I have a problem which i cannot get my head around and wondered if anyone can help me. I have two files "file1" and "file2" and i want to replace column one from file 1 with column one with file2.(where file two has many columns). see example.. ive tried to use cut and... (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have spent the afternoon trawling Google, Unix.com and Unix in a Nutshell for information on how awk arrays work, and I'm not really getting too far. I ahve a batch of code that I am pretty sure can be better managed using awk, but I'm not sure how to use awk arrays to do what I'm... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have requirement to fetch lines with a particular character in one column e.g. 2.5M asdsad 3.5M sadsadas 12323M ssdss i tried following so far #echo 2.3M asdsad | nawk -F " " '{print substr($1,length($1))}' M So far i have tried following # echo 2.3M asdsad | nawk... (4 Replies)

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I have a file like below. colA^col2^col3^col4^col5 aa^11^aaa^a1a^111^aa* bb*^22^bbb*^bb2^222^bb cc^33^ccc*^3cc^333^ccc dd^44^d*dd*^d4d^444^ddd ee^55^e*ee^e5e*^555^e*e NOTE: '^' is the field separator. I need to get the output as colA^col2^col3^col4^col5 aa^11^aaa^a1a^111^aa... (5 Replies)

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Hi to all, I write this time to ask for different syntax or ways of arrays within awk and uses. Since I don't know how actually could work and the real potencial of awk arrays, I look for a proactive reply/help in order to get more information than it seems I'm trying to get. I think I... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, buddies I am new to shell scripting and trying to solve a problem. I read about arrays in awk that they are quite powerful and are associative in nature. Awk Gurus Please help! I have a file: Id1 pp1 0t4 pp8 xy2 Id43 009y black Id6 red xy2 Id12 new pp1 black I have... (5 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Array A contains lines of numbers from files. Array B contains number of fields for each line of each file. I want to run on array A. To do that I need to know the number of fields for each file in array A (because each line doesn't have the same NF). The NF is in array B, problem is: I don't... (6 Replies)