Dear All,
I am new to Unix and need your help. I am trying to write b-shell script which will return substr of some variable like this
d="asdfg"
return Substr(d,1,5).
Please help (5 Replies)
What is the more efficient way to do this (awk only and default FS) ?
$ echo "jefe@alm"|awk '{pos = index($0, "@");printf ("USER: %s\n",substr ($0,1,pos-1))}'
USER: jefe
Thx in advance (2 Replies)
Hi,
My input file is
41;2;xxxx;yyyyy....
41;2;xxxx;yyyyy....
41;2;xxxx;yyyyy....
..
..
I need to change the second field value from 2 to 1. i.e.,
41;1;xxxx;yyyyy....
41;1;xxxx;yyyyy....
41;1;xxxx;yyyyy....
..
..
Thanks in advance. (9 Replies)
Hi,
I have a long string like,
aabab|bcbcbcbbc|defgh|paswd123 dedededede|efef|ghijklmn|paswd234 ghghghghgh|ijijii|klllkkk|paswd345 lmlmlmmm|nononononn|opopopopp|paswd456
This string is devided into one space between substrings. This substrings are,
aabab|bcbcbcbbc|defgh|paswd123... (6 Replies)
Hi I am trying to run this command in ksh ...its not working
$line="123356572867116w1671716"
actual_length = 16
cut_line=`awk 'BEGIN{print substr(ARGV,1,actual_length)}' "$line"`
the substr is not giving me an output
how can i make it done
can anyone hwlp me on this
cut_line=`awk... (2 Replies)
I have the following to find lines matching "COMPLETE" and extract parts of it using substr.
sed -n "/COMPLETE/p" 1.txt | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "\" } {printf"%s %s:%s \n", substr($3,17,3),substr($6,4,1), substr($7,4,1)}' | sort | uniq > temp.txt
Worked fine until the numbers in 2nd & 3rd substr... (5 Replies)
I have a command like this:
listdb ID923 -l |gawk '{if (substr($0,37,1)==1 && NR == 3)print "YES" else if (substr ($0,37,1)==0 && NR == 3) print "NO"}'
This syntax doesn't work. But I was able to get this to work:
listdb ID923 -l |gawk '{if (substr($0,37,1)==1 && NR == 3)print "YES"}'
... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to print last few characters of a string but unable to get the correct output through awk substr.
The length of the string and the number of characters to be printed varies day to day.
For example,To print 1234 from abcdef1234, i will be given 2 strings,string1(for example... (4 Replies)