By default awk separates using space characters so it will handle to TABs as well as space. To make it e.g. use TABs only you can use:
likewise for . or ,
To use any number of space characters only (and not TABs):
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hi,
i have a simple question:
in hpux 11i;
this cmd :
cat mailtest |grep sekar >test1
gives the output file with the name test1.
i want to remove the line which contains the "sekar" and put the result in the new file....
what is the command for that?.. (2 Replies)
i need to seperate values seperated by delimiters and assign it to an array.. can u plz help me on that.
Variables = "asd,rgbh,(,rty,got,),sroe,9034,"
i need to assign the variables into arrays..
like..
var=asd
var=rgbh.. and so on
how do i do this. i need to reuse the values stored in... (6 Replies)
Hello all,
I have some weird problem that kinda baffles me. Say I have the following test file:
claudia:~/tmp$ cat testfile.txt
This is a test line
This is the second test line
And yeah, this is the third test line
Then say I want to tail the file, grep for the word "third" then... (7 Replies)
Hi,
Is there any way I can grep an array against another array?
Basically here's what I need to do.
There will be an array containing some fixed texts and I have to check whether some files contain these lines. Reading the same files over and over again for each different pattern doesnt seem... (1 Reply)
not sure how to do it. wan't to delete it using cut and grep ince i would use it in the shell.
but how must the command be?
grep "64.233.181.103 wwwGoogle.com" /etc/hosts | cut -d
the delimeter is just a space. can you help meplease. :D (1 Reply)
file.txt : is delimiter:
abc:def:ghi
jkl:mno: pqr
123:456:789
if I do the cut command, and cut the first column, and echo it out
I will get the output:
abc
jkl
123
How can I assign the column of text that I've cut into Array?
e.g If I were to echo array array it will output as:... (9 Replies)
This is my command-line code in my script,
passwd=`grep $passwd $userfile | cut -f2 -d: login_users > retrieve`
the
cut -f2 -d: login_users > retrieve
searches and prints the whole column two. what I need is one of the items in the column two only.. what option can I add to my cut... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a SQL script with "create table" and "alter table" statements and I want to cut all the alter table statements from original file (A) and move it to a different file (B).
Can you please me the option. Thanks a lot for your time. (3 Replies)
Hi everyone, thank you so much for reading.
I built a user reference page from /etc/password for a class project. Now I need two shell scripts: 1) Add names to the reference page 2) Delete names from the reference page. I know grep -v is involved somehow and some piping but I am super stuck.
... (1 Reply)