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Old 10-26-2011
thank you again felipe.vinturin for your quick response

I had (and still have your code severely in mind) but if i use the find<Path> part wouldn't this need to be iterated through a loop in order to access the specific directory out of the 720 in the main directory? (please be aware that i'm a newbie in shell scriptingSmilie )

so the main directory is : /home/datasets/

and in there there are 720 directories....by using the find <path> in order to access the single .txt file (and then in the do-done put these 3 awk commands) wouldn't i have to call every time the find tool to find again the path (e.g. /home/datasets/hour_1/ then /home/datasets/hour_2/ etc..etc..)?

thanks again

---------- Post updated at 02:42 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:14 PM ----------

hi felipe again, i actually have tried your code by doing this:
Code:
!usr/bin/sh

find /home/tester/datasets/ -name "hour_*.txt" -type f | \

while read fname
do
	fileBaseName = `basename "${fname}" `
	fileDirName = `dirname "${fname}" `

#	echo "fileBaseName: [${fileDirName}][${fileBaseName}] - fname[${fname}]"

	awk '{print $0 > $2".txt"}' fileBaseName
	awk '{print > "n_"FILENAME}' RS= " " "cust_*.txt"
	awk 'FNR>3 {print > "fin_"FILENAME}' "n_cust*.txt"

done


i get errors on fileBaseName and fileDirName and as expected some errors in the awk commands....is the fileBaseName and fileDirName failure has to do that i'm under cygwin?

cheers and thank you again!

Last edited by Franklin52; 10-27-2011 at 03:12 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags, thank you
 

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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). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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