I'd suggest changing the RS and/or FS built-in variables of awk, then you can input text with all newlines replaced, something like this:
That looks kinda clumsy, I have to admit... let me explain: here I first replace all newlines with spaces (tr) , then pipe to awk, which will handle it all as one record; the big regex will capture date and replace it with __FS__; and then you have your data in the fields...
Instead of 'tr' you could hack the RS built-in, and replace the newlines within awk code...
i need to be able to handel if multiple commands are passed into my script.
(ie) -f -r -i .
does anyone know a simple solution to handeling this. Thanks (2 Replies)
Below an example of what I mean. The first attempt does what I want; the second doesn't, because bash assumes a line break means the end of an individual "command unix". Is there some way that I can convince bash to parse out, eg, to the closing parenthesis?
I'm thinking this would allow for... (1 Reply)
I want to spawn n child processes but have two different classes..with the foremost one forking/spawning the child process and the latter performing a function w/ the spawned processes.
I can do this in one class with an if statement and the simple
if((pid=fork())==0) //child process
{
... (1 Reply)
I have several huge files wich contains oracle table creation scripts as follows:
I would need to remove the pattern colored in red above. Any sed/awk/pearl code will be of much help.
Thanks (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have to look for the full string below in a large file(>5GB) , but that string may be spread in two lines.
string :-- "f8f8 f5f0 f0f0 f1f7 f4f7 f7c1"
By grep "f8f8 f5f0 f0f0 f1f7 f4f7 f7c1" file | tail -1
, I am getting incorrect result because there is a line after this also which... (1 Reply)
In open office spreadsheet, i would like to fill a cell with the name of the spread sheet.
That is if the file name of spread sheet is, team.ods, then i have to fill a specific cell with that name 'team'. How to do that ?
I have more spread sheets to be created, so i want it to be done... (0 Replies)
Thanks everyone for the wonderful and helping environment..
And the problem I asked.. forget it... 4 days wait for a decent reply was such a moral booster.. (3 Replies)
Hello all,
I have a large csv file where there are four types of rows I need to merge into one row per person, where there is a column for each possible code / type of row, even if that code/row isn't there for that person.
In the csv, a person may be listed from one to four times... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I came across one issue recently where output from one of the columns of the table from where i am creating input file has newline characters hence, record in the file is spread over multiple lines. Fields in the file are separated by pipe (|) delimiter. As header will never have newline... (4 Replies)
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anacrontab
ANACRONTAB(5) Anacron Users' Manual ANACRONTAB(5)NAME
/etc/anacrontab - configuration file for anacron
DESCRIPTION
The file /etc/anacrontab describes the jobs controlled by anacron(8). Its lines can be of three kinds: job-description lines, environment
assignments, or empty lines.
Job-description lines are of one of these two forms:
period delay job-identifier command
@period_name delay job-identify command
The period is specified in days, the delay in minutes. The job-identifier can contain any non-blank character, except slashes. It is used
to identify the job in Anacron messages, and as the name for the job's timestamp file. The command can be any shell command. The fields
can be separated by blank spaces or tabs. The period_name can only be set to monthly at the present time. This will ensure jobs are only
run once a month, no matter the number of days in this month, or the previous month.
Environment assignment lines are of the form:
VAR = VALUE
Spaces around VAR are removed. No spaces around VALUE are allowed (unless you want them to be part of the value). The assignment takes
effect from the next line to the end of the file, or to the next assignment of the same variable.
Empty lines are either blank lines, line containing white-space only, or lines with white-space followed by a '#' followed by an arbitrary
comment.
You can continue a line onto the next line by ending it with a ''.
SEE ALSO anacron(8)
The Anacron README file.
AUTHOR
Itai Tzur <itzur@actcom.co.il>
Currently maintained by Pascal Hakim <pasc@(debian.org|redellipse.net)>.
Pascal Hakim 2004-07-11 ANACRONTAB(5)