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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Parsing a linux file and formatting it. Post 302491827 by charithainfadev on Friday 28th of January 2011 01:50:47 PM
Old 01-28-2011
Parsing a linux file and formatting it.

Hi, I have a linux file that has data like this..
Code:
REQUEST_ID|text^Ctext^Ctext^C
REQUEST_ID|text^Ctext^C
REQUEST_ID|
REQUEST_ID|
REQUEST_ID|text^Ctext^Ctext^Ctext^Ctext^Ctext^C....

Where ever I see a ^C character, I need to copy the corresponding REQUEST_ID and that part of the text to a new line. so my destination file should look like this..
Code:
REQUEST_ID|text
REQUEST_ID|text
REQUEST_ID|text

.
.
How should I do this? I have no idea how to do this because I have no knowledge in unix or linux so far..

---------- Post updated at 01:50 PM ---------- Previous update was at 11:49 AM ----------

hi, please someone post reply. I need help quickly. I guess it could be done using sed or awk. but no idea how to do. Please let me know how this could be done using sed or awk

Last edited by Scott; 01-29-2011 at 11:08 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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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). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWgawk | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Volatile | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for gawk is available on http://opensolaris.org. Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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