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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting difficulty with awk Post 302581560 by jdsony on Tuesday 13th of December 2011 11:37:40 AM
Old 12-13-2011
difficulty with awk

hello folks,

i am stuck with this awk command. i need to calculate the sum of a column of values on a flatfile and i am using the following command :
Code:
awk -F"|" '{x += $10} END {print "Sum: "x}' standard_csv_file1.out

that flatfile contains 180 fields and i am getting the following error.
Code:
awk: record `"D"||||||2449|||203|...' has too many fields
 record number 1

i tried the same command when i had few fields (may be 30 or so) it worked fine. but in order to standardise the flatfile, i have to add too many null value fields and now the total number of fields is 180 and the command doesn't work saying too many fields. any way around please. Smilie

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Last edited by zaxxon; 12-13-2011 at 12:44 PM.. Reason: code tags, see PM
 

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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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