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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Help using awk Post 302463441 by ninjagod123 on Sunday 17th of October 2010 03:02:15 PM
Old 10-17-2010
Help using awk

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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:

I have a simple txt files that looks something like this (The title is a part of the text file)

Code:
Student Grades
---------------
1 Tim Purser 89
2 John Wayne 56
3 Jenn Hawkins 95
4 Harry Potter 75

Here are my questions:

How would I ONLY print the names of students who have a score better than 85?

How would I sort the students based on score: only outputting Student Name and Score?

2. Relevant commands, code, scripts, algorithms:

none

3. The attempts at a solution (include all code and scripts):

I understand how to sort based on grades. But I don't understand how to output based on a condition. I have tried using awk, but I'm having major trouble.

4. Complete Name of School (University), City (State), Country, Name of Professor, and Course Number (Link to Course):

University of Texas
Austin
United States
Erozner
CS108
cs.utexas.edu/~erozner/cs108/


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NAME
debconf-mergetemplate - merge together multiple debconf template files SYNOPSIS
debconf-mergetemplate [options] [templates.ll ...] templates DESCRIPTION
Note: This utility is deprecated. You should switch to using po-debconf's po2debconf program. This program is useful if you have multiple debconf templates files which you want to merge together into one big file. All the specified files will be read in, merged, and output to standard output. This can be especially useful if you are dealing with translated template files. In this case, you might have your main template file, plus several other files provided by the translators. These files will have translated fields in them, and maybe the translators left in the english versions of the fields they translated, for their reference. So, you want to merge together all the translated templates files with your main templates file. Any fields that are unique to the translated files need to be added in to the correct templates, but any fields they have in common should be superseded by the fields in the main file (which might be more up-to-date). This program handles that case properly, just list each of the translated templates files, and then your main templates file last. OPTIONS
--outdated Merge in even outdated translations. The default is to drop them with a warning message. --drop-old-templates If a translation has an entire template that is not in the master file (and thus is probably an old template), drop that entire template. SEE ALSO
debconf-getlang(1) AUTHOR
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