That's a slight fallacy known as useless use of ls *, it's not ls that understands what * means -- it's the shell itself. That's why * works the same way with every command.
mput is independent of the shell however, and does its own processing of *, but it works the same way as the shell.
You're going to need to modify your shell script I think. Perhaps you can tell it the prefix you want, instead of giving it the entire "abc*.dat", and the shell can replace that itself, and you can feed that into awk in the form you want as well.
To modify your shell script I'll need to actually see it of course.
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This kludge might also work, but it's not pretty. It replaces all . by \., all * by .*, prepends ^, and appends $ to turn simple globs into regular expressions. If your awk doesn't have gsub, use nawk.
Anyone know how I will use awk's variable in a regular expression?
This line of code of mine is working, the value PREMS should be a variable:
awk '$1 ~ /PREMS/ { if(length(appldata)+2 >= length($1)) print $0; }' appldata=$APPLDATA /tmp/file.tmp
The value of APPLDATA variable is PREMS.
... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have this script:
awk -v va=45 '$0~va{print}' flo2
That returns: "4526745 1234 " (this is the only line of the file "flo2".
However, I would like to get "va" to match the begining of the line, so that is "va" is different than 45 (eg. 67, 12 ...) I would not have any output. That... (3 Replies)
I want to block all special characters except alphanumerics.. and "."(dot ) character
currently am using //
I want to even block only single dot or multiple dots..
ex:
. or .............. should be blocked.
please provide me the reg ex.
---------- Post updated at 05:11 AM... (10 Replies)
I have a large file encoded in Unicode that I need to convert to CSV. In general, I know how to do this by regular expression substitutions using sed or Perl, but one problem I am having is that I need to put a quotation mark at the end of each line to protect the last field. The usual regex... (1 Reply)
Hi ,
I have a file with "|" (pipe) as a delimeter. I am looking for the record count where 5th field is a number with 15 digit length only.
all the records with above requirement is valid rest all are invalid. I need count of valid records and invalid records.
Can anyone please help (9 Replies)
Hi All,
Below is a sample code:
print "Enter the Name: ";
my $Name = <>;
print "Word is $Name";
open (FH,"AIDNameList.txt");
while (<FH>)
{
my $line;
print "Word is $Name";
for $line(<FH>)... (12 Replies)
Hello,
Awk seem treat the pattern as regular expression, how can awk search not using regular expression? e.g. just represent for "", not "A" or "a" . I don't want to add backslash . (2 Replies)
Hi,
Server - MEDIAWIKI - MYSQL - CENTOS 5 - PHP5
I have a database import of close to a million pages into my wiki, mediawiki site,
the format that were left with is not pretty, and I need to find a way to clean this up and present it nicely...
I think regex is the best option as I can... (1 Reply)
I am trying to test if I can replace a regular expression in 'nawk' with a variable.
Please let me know why it is not working. I am using ksh88i on solaris8
I am trying use this test as a building block to filter active external DNS connections.
Ideally I want to pass variable defined... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I would like to search a regular expression by passing as an i/p variableto AWK.
For Example ::
162.111.101.209.9516
162.111.101.209.41891
162.111.101.209.9516
162.111.101.209.9517
162.111.101.209.41918
162.111.101.209.9517
162.111.101.209.41937
162.111.101.209.41951... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Girish19
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
recins
RECINS(1) User Commands RECINS(1)NAME
recins - insert records in a recfile
SYNOPSIS
recins [OPTION]... [t TYPE] [-n NUM | -e EXPR | -q STR | -m NUM] [(-f STR -v STR]|[-R RECDATA)]... [FILE]
DESCRIPTION
Insert new records in a rec database.
-f, --field=STR
field name; should be followed by a -v.
-v, --value=STR
field value; should be preceded by an -f.
-r, --record=STR
record that will be inserted in the file.
--force
insert the record even if it is violating record restrictions.
--no-external
don't use external descriptors.
--no-auto
don't insert auto generated fields.
--verbose
give a detailed report if the integrity check fails.
-s, --password=STR
encrypt confidential fields with the given password.
--help print a help message and exit.
--version
show version and exit.
Record selection options:
-i, --case-insensitive
make strings case-insensitive in selection expressions.
-t, --type=TYPE
operate on records of the specified type only.
-e, --expression=EXPR
selection expression.
-q, --quick=STR
select records with fields containing a string.
-n, --number=NUM,...
select specific records by position, with ranges.
-R, --random=NUM
select a given number of random records.
If no FILE is specified then the command acts like a filter, getting the data from standard input and writing the result to standard out-
put.
AUTHOR
Written by Jose E. Marchesi.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to: bug-recutils@gnu.org
GNU recutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010, 2011, 2012 Jose E. Marchesi. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for recins is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and recins programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info recins
should give you access to the complete manual.
recins 1.4.93 January 2012 RECINS(1)