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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Hopefully a simple script, bash or perl... Post 302486022 by CudaPrime on Thursday 6th of January 2011 06:33:45 PM

01-06-2011

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Thanks for the quick reply!

I've attempted to implement the awk command with the code suggestions you mention but I keep getting a syntax error, probably my clueless ability at coding, I assume this can't be done from the command line?

Can you show me an explicit sinp of the syntax used to perform multiple passes on the file with awk?

Thanks a ton for the help!

---------- Post updated at 03:33 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:25 PM ----------

I took your answer litterally as you can see here;

Code:

#cat input.file | awk -FS: a[NR]=$1 | awk $1=a[FNR+1]-a[FNR]-3 > Result.txt
awk: cmd. line:1: a[NR]=
awk: cmd. line:1:       ^ unexpected newline or end of string
awk: =a[FNR+1]-a[FNR]-3
awk: ^ syntax error

I'm sure this is just me being a doofus.

Last edited by Franklin52; 01-07-2011 at 03:30 AM.. Reason: code tags

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

igawk

IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME

       igawk - gawk with include files

SYNOPSIS

       igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
       igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...

DESCRIPTION

       Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).

       AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like

	      @include getopt.awk

       in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.

OPTIONS

       See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.

EXAMPLES

       cat << EOF > test.awk
       @include getopt.awk

       BEGIN {
	    while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
		 ...
       }
       EOF

       igawk -f test.awk

SEE ALSO

       gawk(1)

       Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.

AUTHOR

       Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).

Free Software Foundation					    Nov 3 1999								  IGAWK(1)

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