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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Some Awk Getline help? Post 302426636 by jeeplou on Wednesday 2nd of June 2010 11:38:26 AM
Old 06-02-2010
Some Awk Getline help?
Greetings,

I have about 3000 files that I want to search. The first column in all of these 3000 files has a unique serial number on each line. The subsequent columns have lots of data.
I have another masterfile with three columns to help me find all the data I need in a moments notice:

col 1 col2 col3
serial.1 row# file1
serial.2 row# file345
serial.3 row# file1023


what I want to do take list of serial numbers, get the file name and row number for where the data sits, and then spit out the data into one file. I figured awk getline might help call up the filename and row name to go searching, but I am really confused with this command.
Another thought was to make a shell script to go down each row in the masterfile, create a variable for "row number variable" and one for "filenamevariable" and then awk '(NF=rownumbervariable){print $0}' filenamevariable >>outputfile

but cant get this working either.


ANy suggestions?

Thanks,
jeeplou
 

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NAME

       psc - prepare sc files

SYNOPSIS

       psc [-fLkrSPv] [-s cell] [-R n] [-C n] [-n n] [-d c]

DESCRIPTION

       Psc  is used to prepare data for input to the spreadsheet calculator sc(1).  It accepts normal ascii data on standard input.  Standard out-
       put is a sc file.  With no options, psc starts the spreadsheet in cell A0.  Strings are right justified.  All data on a line is entered	on
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OPTIONS

       -f     Omit column width calculations.  This option is for preparing data to be merged with an existing spreadsheet.  If the option is  not
	      specified, the column widths calculated for the data read by psc will override those already set in the existing spreadsheet.

       -L     Left justify strings.

       -k     Keep  all  delimiters.   This  option  causes the output cell to change on each new delimiter encountered in the input stream.   The
	      default action is to condense multiple delimiters to one, so that the cell only changes once per input data item.

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	      with multiple columns instead of a single column spreadsheet.

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       -R n   Increment by n on each new output row.

       -C n   Increment by n on each new output column.

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