Ok, but be aware: perl is NOT POSIX so it is not guaranteed to be on a given unix box.
Next, there are different awk versions on some machines - KSH by itself does not enforce a particular version of awk. So simply using
does not guarantee anything about awk.
Systems can have aliases: awk for GNU gawk, for example. Solaris has an ancient version of awk: /usr/bin/awk plus others: /usr/bin/nawk (what you want to use)
Circumventing the portability problem by assuming perl is there is not necessarily a good option.
My point: you may be wasting your time if this has to be freely portable.
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Hi
I am trying to search and replace a multi line pattern in a php file using awk.
The pattern starts with
<div id="navbar">
and ends with
</div>
and spans over an unknown number of lines.
I need the command to be a one liner.
I use the "record separator" like this :
awk -v... (8 Replies)
Thanks for giving your time and effort to answer questions and helping newbies like me understand awk.
I have a huge file, millions of lines, so perl takes quite a bit of time, I'd like to convert these perl one liners to awk.
Basically I'd like all lines with ISA sandwiched between... (9 Replies)
Hi!
I have a difficult problem, to step up a unknown version number in a text file, and save the file. It would be great to run script.sh and the version gets increased.
Example the content of the textfile.txt
hello
version = x
bye
This include three steps
1. First find the char after... (2 Replies)
Hi, I'm writing a ksh script and trying to use an awk / sed / or perl one-liner to remove the last 4 characters of a line in a file if it begins with a period.
Here is the contents of the file... the column in which I want to remove the last 4 characters is the last column. ($6 in awk). I've... (10 Replies)
can someone help me translate the following command, from:
/usr/bin/awk "/^$TOFDAYM $TOFDAYD /,0" $LOGFILE
to something like
perl -e .....
basically, i want to use perl to do awk functions within a shell script. i want to do the above awk, using perl.
any suggestions? (9 Replies)
Hello all
According to the following file (orignal one contains 200x times the same structure...) I was wondering if someone could help me to print <byte>??</byte> values
example, running this script/command like
./script.sh xxapp
I would expect as output: 102 116 112
./script.sh xxapp2... (2 Replies)
Not quite a unix question but problem in a perl command. Taking a chance if someone knows about the error
cat 1
a b c d
perl -p -e 's/a/b/g' 1
b b c d
What is the problem here??
perl -p -i -e 's/a/b/g' 1
Can't remove 1: Text file busy, skipping file. (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am a newbie to awk. Here is my problem. Looking for an awk 1-liner to solve it:
My Computing Environment:
- Solaris10
- I prefer to use csh or sh shells
1. Lets say my input file is File1.dat (delimter = | ) and looks as follows:
(File1.dat)
... (1 Reply)
Trying to find and replace one string with another string in a file
#!/usr/bin/perl
$csd_table_path = "/file.ntab";
$find_str = '--bundle_type=021';
$repl_str = '--bundle_type=021 --target=/dev/disk1s2';
if( system("/usr/bin/perl -p -i -e 's/$find_str/$repl_str/' $csd_table_path")... (2 Replies)
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ucblinks
ucblinks(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands ucblinks(1B)NAME
ucblinks - adds /dev entries to give SunOS 4.x compatible names to SunOS 5.x devices
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/ucblinks [-e rulebase] [-r rootdir]
DESCRIPTION
ucblinks creates symbolic links under the /dev directory for devices whose SunOS 5.x names differ from their SunOS 4.x names. Where possi-
ble, these symbolic links point to the device's SunOS 5.x name rather than to the actual /devices entry.
ucblinks does not remove unneeded compatibility links; these must be removed by hand.
ucblinks should be called each time the system is reconfiguration-booted, after any new SunOS 5.x links that are needed have been created,
since the reconfiguration may have resulted in more compatibility names being needed.
In releases prior to SunOS 5.4, ucblinks used a nawk rule-base to construct the SunOS 4.x compatible names. ucblinks no longer uses nawk
for the default operation, although nawk rule-bases can still be specifed with the -e option. The nawk rule-base equivalent to the SunOS
5.4 default operation can be found in /usr/ucblib/ucblinks.awk.
OPTIONS -e rulebase Specify rulebase as the file containing nawk(1) pattern-action statements.
-r rootdir Specify rootdir as the directory under which dev and devices will be found, rather than the standard root directory /.
FILES
/usr/ucblib/ucblinks.awk sample rule-base for compatibility links
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWscpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO devlinks(1M), disks(1M), ports(1M), tapes(1M), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 13 Apr 1994 ucblinks(1B)