Your request for help is a bit confusing. I'm assuming that you want to take a string with comma separated values and convert the values into bar separated fields. Further, if the field is quoted, then it may contain commas which do not indicate a field. Thus:
Code:
"hello","how are you",doing?,are,you,"at,home,tonight","this,is a,test","of the system"
would be translated to:
Code:
hello|how are you|doing?|are|you|at,home,tonight|this,is a,test|of the system
If that is what you are looking for, then this sed programme will do it:
Code:
sed -E '
s/^([^",]+)/"\1"/; # edit -- enables processing of your original file
s/^"/</;
s/"$/>/;
s/","/></g;
s/",/>/g;
s/,"/</g;
s/>([^<,]+)/><\1>/;
: try_again
s/>,([^,<]+)/><\1>/;ttry_again
s/></|/g;
s/^<//;
s/>$//'
It does not handle input with < or > characters. If you are not using a BSD or AT&T AST version of sed, then you'll need to replace -E with -r on the command.
Edit -- with small change, the original input you presented can be processed and passed to awk or other programme:
Hi,
I have a main loop which calls a sub loop, which finally returns to the main loop itself. The main loop runs when a flag is set. Now, I have a signal handler for SIGINT, which resets the flag and thus stops the main loop. Suppose I send SIGINT while the program is in subloop, I get an error... (1 Reply)
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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)
Hello,
i am using the sigaction function to handle the SIGCHLD signal.Is it possible to use a class member function as the handler function (the sa_handler member of the sigaction structure)?
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hello everyone....
script is: To convert the contents of a database file into uppercase
my code is:
printf "%s\n" , $2 | awk '{print toupper($2)}' emp.lst
i m able to do only for one field.....didn't get any sources for handling multiple fields.
please suggest me for multiple... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have an issue that I am trying to resolve using arrays in awk. I have two files, the first one is a dictionary with this format:
FILE 1 (dictionary)
'Abrir' 'Open'
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I want to execute awk command without quotes.
who am i | awk {'print $2'}
above code should be something like:
who am i | awk {print $2}
Why such weird requirement?
Im assigning command to a variable, hence i need to escape the quotes.
e.g:
x='who am i | awk {\'print $2\'}'
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I have a text file where each field is enclosed in double quotes and separated by a comma.
But in certain rows we have embedded double quotes within column data
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"""TRUSPICE CENTRE"" CLAYTON AU"
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Hello, i had a problem running a script , and after investigation found its all to do with the quotes:
cat file1
line1
val1
val2
line2
val1
val2
line3
val1
val2
awk 'BEGIN {RS="\n\n"; FS="\n";} {print $1 $2}' file1
This gives me the wrong output: (5 Replies)
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I am having script which contains many functions. Need to print each function name at the starting of the function. Like below,
functionname()
{
echo "functionname"
commands....
}
I've tried like below,
func=`grep "()" scriptname | cut -d "(" -f1`
for i in $func
do
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Discussion started by: Sumanthsv
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
bup-margin
bup-margin(1) General Commands Manual bup-margin(1)NAME
bup-margin - figure out your deduplication safety margin
SYNOPSIS
bup margin [options...]
DESCRIPTION
bup margin iterates through all objects in your bup repository, calculating the largest number of prefix bits shared between any two
entries. This number, n, identifies the longest subset of SHA-1 you could use and still encounter a collision between your object ids.
For example, one system that was tested had a collection of 11 million objects (70 GB), and bup margin returned 45. That means a 46-bit
hash would be sufficient to avoid all collisions among that set of objects; each object in that repository could be uniquely identified by
its first 46 bits.
The number of bits needed seems to increase by about 1 or 2 for every doubling of the number of objects. Since SHA-1 hashes have 160 bits,
that leaves 115 bits of margin. Of course, because SHA-1 hashes are essentially random, it's theoretically possible to use many more bits
with far fewer objects.
If you're paranoid about the possibility of SHA-1 collisions, you can monitor your repository by running bup margin occasionally to see if
you're getting dangerously close to 160 bits.
OPTIONS --predict
Guess the offset into each index file where a particular object will appear, and report the maximum deviation of the correct answer
from the guess. This is potentially useful for tuning an interpolation search algorithm.
--ignore-midx
don't use .midx files, use only .idx files. This is only really useful when used with --predict.
EXAMPLE
$ bup margin
Reading indexes: 100.00% (1612581/1612581), done.
40
40 matching prefix bits
1.94 bits per doubling
120 bits (61.86 doublings) remaining
4.19338e+18 times larger is possible
Everyone on earth could have 625878182 data sets
like yours, all in one repository, and we would
expect 1 object collision.
$ bup margin --predict
PackIdxList: using 1 index.
Reading indexes: 100.00% (1612581/1612581), done.
915 of 1612581 (0.057%)
SEE ALSO bup-midx(1), bup-save(1)BUP
Part of the bup(1) suite.
AUTHORS
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>.
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