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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting help with file processing Post 302503140 by return_user on Wednesday 9th of March 2011 06:23:51 PM
Old 03-09-2011
Hi,
Thank you for the suggestion:

Quote:
Originally Posted by yinyuemi
try:

Code:
awk '{a["0"$1]=$2}END{for(i=1;i<=strtonum("0xFFFFF");i++) {a1=sprintf ("%X",i);a2=sprintf("%0"5-length(al)"s",a1);printf("%s\t%s\n",a2,a3=(a2 in a)?a[a2]:"00")}}' input

I tried this and it still doesn't seem to work, my 'known' data from input file is also all '00'.
Code:
13 SRC > 
13 SRC > cat ttt 
00000  7E
00001  8F
00002  40
00003  00
00004  7E
00005  9F
00006  50
14 SRC > awk '{a["0"$1]=$2}END{for(i=1;i<=strtonum("0xFFFFF");i++) {a1=sprintf ("%X",i);a2=sprintf("%0"5-length(al)"s",a1);printf("%s\t%s\n",a2,a3=(a2 in a)?a[a2]:"00")}}' ttt >ttt_out
15 SRC > 
15 SRC > head ttt_out 
00001	00
00002	00
00003	00
00004	00
00005	00
00006	00
00007	00
00008	00
00009	00
0000A	00
16 SRC > 
16 SRC >

Could you please let me know what I may be doing wrong?
 

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