How to get awk to edit in place and join all lines in text file
Hi,
I lack the utter fundamentals on how to craft an awk script.
I have hundreds of text files that were mangled by .doc format so all the lines are broken up so I need to join all of the lines of text into a single line. Normally I use vim command "ggVGJ" to join all lines but with so many files, I need a batch process.
What would be ideal is:
But I having trouble crafting "join_all_lines.awk".
I have found:
but I don't know how to script that into "join_all_lines.awk" and also it doesn't edit the file in place, it just displays the output.
I also found:
it gives the same result. I don't know how to get them to edit a bunch of text files in place.
Hi,
I have data with broken lines:
Sample data:
"12"|"25"|"a"|"b"|"c"|"d"|"e"|"f"|"2453748"|"08:10:50"
"16"|"25"|"a"|"b"|"c"|"d"|"e"|"f"|"
2453748"|"08:15:50"
"16"|"25"|"a"|"b"|"
c"|"d"|"e"|"f"|"2453748"|"08:19:50"
"16"|"25"|"a"|"b"|"c"|"d"|"e"|"f"|"2453748"|"08:19:50"
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I have a file with 50 million records having 2 columns. I have to do the below:
1. Generate some random numbers of a fixed length.
2. Replace the second column of randomly chosen rows with the random numbers.
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I am attempting to create a command that I can eventually put into a loop so I can edit 1file on many servers. I would like to edit the file in place with sed -i. If not I will take any suggestions on how to use a temp file. I need to remove a email address from the configuration file... (4 Replies)
I am trying to use awk to place the contens of a filename in $1 and $2 followed by the data in the text file. Basically, put the filename within the text file. There are over 1000 files in the directory and as of now each file is saved with a unique name but it is not within the file. Thank you... (10 Replies)
Hi Guys,
Could you please advise how to join multiple details lines into single row, with HEADER 1 as the record separator and comma(,) as the field separator.
Input:
HEADER 1, HEADER 2, HEADER 3,
11,22,33,
COLUMN1,COLUMN2,COLUMN3,
AA1, BB1, CC1,
END: ABC
HEADER 1, HEADER 2,... (3 Replies)
Hello ,
I will need your help once again.
I have the following file:
cat file02.txt
PATTERN XXX.YYY.ZZZ. 500
ROW01 aaa. 300 XS 14
ROW 45 29 AS XD.FD.
PATTERN 500 ZZYN002
ROW gdf gsste
ALT 267 fhhfe.ddgdg.
PATTERN ERE.MAY. 280
PATTERRNTH 5000 rt.rt.
ROW SO a 678
PATTERN... (2 Replies)
Hi all
OS - RHEL6.4
I have input file -f1.txt
I need to search line which starts with \Start and read next line till it gets blank line and join them all. I need to trim any trailing spaces for each line.So output.txt should be..
\Start\now\fine stepwatch this space for toolsends... (7 Replies)
Hello,
I have a file with 2 columns ( tableName , ColumnName) delimited by a Pipe like below . File is sorted by ColumnName.
Table1|Column1
Table2|Column1
Table5|Column1
Table3|Column2
Table2|Column2
Table4|Column3
Table2|Column3
Table2|Column4
Table5|Column4
Table2|Column5
From... (6 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
join
JOIN(1) General Commands Manual JOIN(1)NAME
join - relational database operator
SYNOPSIS
join [-an] [-e s] [-o list] [-tc] file1 file2
DESCRIPTION
Join forms, on the standard output, a join of the two relations specified by the lines of file1 and file2. If file1 is `-', the standard
input is used.
File1 and file2 must be sorted in increasing ASCII collating sequence on the fields on which they are to be joined, normally the first in
each line.
There is one line in the output for each pair of lines in file1 and file2 that have identical join fields. The output line normally con-
sists of the common field, then the rest of the line from file1, then the rest of the line from file2.
Fields are normally separated by blank, tab or newline. In this case, multiple separators count as one, and leading separators are dis-
carded.
These options are recognized:
-an In addition to the normal output, produce a line for each unpairable line in file n, where n is 1 or 2.
-e s Replace empty output fields by string s.
-o list
Each output line comprises the fields specified in list, each element of which has the form n.m, where n is a file number and m is a
field number.
-tc Use character c as a separator (tab character). Every appearance of c in a line is significant.
SEE ALSO sort(1), comm(1), awk(1).
BUGS
With default field separation, the collating sequence is that of sort -b; with -t, the sequence is that of a plain sort.
The conventions of join, sort, comm, uniq, look and awk(1) are wildly incongruous.
7th Edition April 29, 1985 JOIN(1)