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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk, string as record separator, transposing rows into columns Post 302513596 by spindoctor on Wednesday 13th of April 2011 10:40:29 PM
Old 04-13-2011
@ctsgnb
That might work, but again, several of the files have different text contained in the first part of each document.
How do I write the output from the paste command to a file?

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@shamrock, I tried your script and the output is marvellous, but it is not matching all the documents in each file I'm working on.
The problem is that each file has information entered in different ways. In one file, the word edition comes before the date, so your script stops printing before the crucial information, the date.

The only thing that unifies all the files is that each section is separated by the phrase
[0-9] of [0-9] DOCUMENTS, followed by some information, followed by a date. The only way to match that text is to grep a few lines after the Documents phrase, transpose the rows, and then play around with the columns I've got (probably in Excel) to get all the dates lined up. I was really very close with my original script, but it would just output everything on one line, rather than on one line for each record (defined as the space between the DOCUMENTS string.

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The problem is really with the newline. I can get all the information I need out of every file, but awk is just outputting everything onto one line
Quote:
1 of 28 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2010 Dagbladet Politiken All Rights Reserved ......ds -- 2 of 28 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2010 Dagbladet Politiken
And where it encounters the new record string that I define at the beginning of the script, it inserts a double dash (see right before 2 of 28) in the output, but it won't print them on two lines.
If I can just break up that output into one record per line, which I thought awk was supposed to do, I'm off to the races...
 

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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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