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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting String copy Post 302507952 by mrpugster on Friday 25th of March 2011 08:38:37 AM
Old 03-25-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by michaelrozar17
Could you change as below and try..
Code:
awk '/Filippo Berio/{print $0 FS $2;next}1' inputfile > outfile

Ah ha ----- perfect :-) You just saved me lots of manual find and replace.

---------- Post updated at 04:38 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:28 AM ----------

Hi again

I've got 40+ of these to do, what's the best way to go about putting all 40 in a script, e.g.
Code:
awk '/Filippo Berio/{print $0 FS $2;next}1' test1.txt > test2.txt
awk '/Sun Grown/{print $0 FS $2;next}1' test1.txt > test2.txt

The above won't work obviously, however with AWK can you work on the input file alone so you don't have to output to a second file?

I also tried putting two command on the same line but this causes errors in other products.
Code:
awk '/Filippo Berio/{print $0 FS $2;next}1','/Sun Grown/{print $0 FS $2;next}1' test1.txt > test2.txt

thanks
Last edited by Franklin52; 03-25-2011 at 10:22 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN

column

COLUMN(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 COLUMN(1)

NAME

     column -- columnate lists

SYNOPSIS

     column [-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

     The column utility formats its input into multiple columns.  Rows are filled before columns.  Input is taken from file operands, or, by
     default, from the standard input.	Empty lines are ignored.

     The options are as follows:

     -c      Output is formatted for a display columns wide.

     -s      Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option.

     -t      Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table.  Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with
	     the characters supplied using the -s option.  Useful for pretty-printing displays.

     -x      Fill columns before filling rows.

DIAGNOSTICS

     The column utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

ENVIRONMENT

     COLUMNS  The environment variable COLUMNS is used to determine the size of the screen if no other information is available.

EXAMPLES

	   (printf "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY " ; 
	   printf "HH:MM/YEAR NAME
" ; 
	   ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t

SEE ALSO

     colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1)

HISTORY

     The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.

BSD
								   June 6, 1993 							       BSD
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