Awesome, yeah I have a space between the file size (700k) and filename (data_sample1_test) on purpose and hoped that each field was infact each string/delimited by spaces.
Also the reason I used BEGIN was because when I was playing with a Hello World script I came across on wikipedia I took out the BEGIN and somehow created an infinite loop where whenever I typed anything, it would be followed by Hello, World! until I forced a stop.
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I understand what I did to create this infinite loop thing, as I just tried what you said and it happened again.
Was just a silly mistake on my part, and technically I suppose it's not an infinite loop at all, I'm just outputting the result straight to linux (i think)
So it was literally the difference between giving it a file to access from or not giving it a file
Accessing from data_SAMPLE1_test
Not accessing a file
I know that must seem extremely stupid and/or simple, but I guess I'm so new to this language it didn't occur to me straight away
Just written a great little script that analyses a flat ASCII CSV file and reports for any discrepancies with field counts per record etc.
Works fine on all the flat files except one, which has 113 fields per line. AWK can only seemingly cope with up to 99 fields.
Is there any way around... (2 Replies)
I am using:
ps -A -o command,%cpu
to get process and cpu usage figures. I want to use awk to split up the columns it returns. If I use:
awk '{print "Process: "$1"\nCPU Usage: "$NF"\n"}'
the $NF will get me the value in the last column, but if there is more than one word in the... (2 Replies)
#cat BATCH007.TXT
01,661060052,061000104,081118,0915,07,80,1,2/
99,,,2/
I have this file called BATCH007.TXT. I am trying to change fields 2 and 3 on line 2 to have zeroes. Like this:
01,661060052,061000104,081118,0915,07,80,1,2/
99,0,0,2/
I can use these commands to print identify the... (2 Replies)
I'm working on formatting some attendance data to meet a vendors requirements to upload to their system. With some help on the forums here, I have the data close. But they've since changed what they want.
The vendor wants me to submit three fields to them. Field 1 is the studentid field,... (4 Replies)
Hi there, i need some help please...
I have this text, it's name data.txt that contains the following information:
Mark Owen: 6999999888 6999999888 +302310999999 2310999999
Steve Blade Pit: +30691111222 2310888777 6999999888
John Rose: 2310777555 310544565 +302310999999
Mary Stuart:... (7 Replies)
Hi,
Could someone please let me know me how i can use an awk command to print the No. of fields of each file present in a Directory?Suppose the Directory has 5 text files in which the first record in each file contains fields separated by a '|'. I need to use a awk command to display the No... (8 Replies)
Hi All,
I am looking for an awk script to do the following
Join the fields together only if the first 4 fields are same.
Can it be done with join function in awk??
a,b,c,d,8,,,
a,b,c,d,,7,,
a,b,c,d,,,9,
a,b,p,e,8,,,
a.b,p,e,,9,,
a,b,p,z,,,,9
a,b,p,z,,8,,
desired output:
... (1 Reply)
Hi experts,
I need to print the first field first then last two fields should come next and then i need to print rest of the fields.
Input :
a1,abc,jsd,fhf,fkk,b1,b2
a2,acb,dfg,ghj,b3,c4
a3,djf,wdjg,fkg,dff,ggk,d4,d5
Expected output:
a1,b1,b2,abc,jsd,fhf,fkk... (6 Replies)
I'm trying to compare 2 files for differences in a selct number of fields. When differnces are found it will write the whole record of the second file including appending '|C' out to a delta file. Each record will have 20 fields, but only want to do comparison of 1st 15 fields. The 1st field of... (7 Replies)
Hi
I have a file as below
<field1> <field2> <field3> ... <field_num1> <field_num2>
Trying to sort based on difference of <field_num1> and <field_num2> in desceding order and print all fields.
I tried this and it doesn't sort on the difference field .. Appreciate your help.
cat... (9 Replies)
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