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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with awk command Post 302519546 by kevintse on Wednesday 4th of May 2011 09:15:44 AM
Old 05-04-2011
The preceding script can be rewritten a little verbosely as the following:
Code:
awk -F, '$1=="ABC"&&($2=="XYZ"||$2=="DEF") {$6="This is a valid record"}1{print}' OFS="," infile

or
Code:
awk -F, '$1=="ABC"&&($2=="XYZ"||$2=="DEF") {$6="This is a valid record"}{print}' OFS="," infile

Actually it can be any number that is not 0, which evaluates to FALSE.
A typical awk program will contain PATTERN{ACTION}, either PATTERN or ACTION is optional, but not both. When PATTERN is absent, ACTION will always be executed, when ACTION is absent, it defaults to {print}.

So now you should be able to figure out what that one liner does.
 

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