Sponsored Content
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Merging words splitted into characters with awk Post 302496221 by binlib on Saturday 12th of February 2011 09:15:43 PM
Old 02-12-2011
This may get you started:
Code:
awk '
{
  while(match($0,/ [^ ] [^ ]( [^ ])+ /)>0) {
    x = substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH)
    gsub(/ /, "", x)
    $0 = substr($0,1,RSTART) x substr($0,RSTART+RLENGTH-1)
  }
  print
}'

This User Gave Thanks to binlib For This Post:
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

merging 2 lines with awk and stripping first two words

Hey all i am pretty new to awk... here my problem. My input is something like this: type: NSR client; name: pegasus; save set: /, /var, /part, /part/part2, /testpartition, /foo/bar,... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: bazzed
9 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Display text between two words/characters

Using sed or awk, I need to display text between two words/characters. Below are two example inputs and the desired output. In a nutshell, I need the date-range value between the quotes (but only the first occurance of date-range as there can be more than one). Example One Input: xml-report... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: cmichaelson
1 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Script for pulling words of 4 to 7 characters from a file

Even just advice on where to start would be helpful. Thank You (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Azeus
2 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

deleting symbols and characters between two words

Hi Please tell me how could i delete symbols, whitespaces, characters, words everything between two words in a line. Let my file is aaa BB ccc ddd eee FF kkk xxx 123456 BB 44^& iop FF 999 xxx uuu rrr BB hhh nnn FF 000 I want to delete everything comes in between BB and FF( deletion... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: rish_max
3 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Urgent help needed on merging lines with similar words

Hi everyone, I need help with a merging problem. Basically, I have a file with several lines (in this example 9 lines) such as: Amie, Jay, Sasha, Rob, Kay Mia, Frank Jay, Nancy, Cecil Paul, Ked, Nancy, 17, Fred 14, 16, 18, 20 9, 11 12, Frank 18, Peter, 62 Nancy, 27 A delimiter is... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: awb221
3 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

awk help needed in trying to count lines,words and characters

Hello, i am trying to write a script file in awk which yields me the number of lines,characters and words, i checked it many many times but i am not able to find any mistake in it. Please tell me where i went wrong. BEGIN{ print "Filename Lines Words Chars\n" } { filename=filename + 1... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: salman4u
2 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Need Header for all splitted files - awk

Input file: i have a file and need to split into multiple files based on first column. i need the header for all the splitted files. I'm unable to get the header. $ cat log.txt id,mailtype,value 1252468812,yahoo,3.5 1252468812,hotmail,2.4 1252468819,yahoo,1.2 1252468812,msn,8.9... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: mannefromdetroi
6 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Replace words with the first characters

Hello folks, I have a simple request but I can't find a simple solution. Hare is my problem. I have some dates, I need to replace months with only the first 3 characters (jan for january, feb for february, ... all in lower case) ~$ echo '3 october 2010' | sed 3 oct 2010I thought of something... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: tukuyomi
8 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Get characters between two words

Guys, Here is the txt file... SLIC N0SLU704034789 rŒ° EJ00 ó<NL DMRG>11 100 4B 2 SLIC N0SLU704034789 rŒ° TJ10 <4000><NL> 2 SLIC N0SLU704034789 ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: gowrishankar05
2 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Need to extract characters between two search words in a script!!

Hi, I have a log file which is the output from a xml script : <?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE svc_result SYSTEM "MLP_SVC_RESULT_320.DTD"> <svc_result ver="3.2.0"> <slia ver="3.0.0"> <pos> <msid type="MSISDN" enc="ASC">8093078040</msid> <poserr> ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: arjunstarz
4 Replies
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 10:12 PM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy