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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting AWK separating a file into an array Post 302604000 by tgidzak on Friday 2nd of March 2012 02:14:18 PM
Old 03-02-2012
AWK separating a file into an array

Is there a way to have awk put successive records into an array in a bash script?

I have files that say things like

name :title :salary
Bob :Instructor :30,000
Joyce :Instructor :30,000
Patrick :Manager :40,000


What I want to do is seperate this file into an array so that the array would look like this:

array[0] = Bob :Instructor :30,000
array[1] = Joyce :Instructor :30,000
array[2] = Patrick :Manager :40,000

I figure there must be a way to make this happen through awk, but I am so new at this that I cannot think of how to do it, and I have not been able to locate an example or even instructions on how to do this.

I want this done in the bash script.

Please, any help that can be given would be greatly appreciated. Smilie
 

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ppmtosixel(1)						      General Commands Manual						     ppmtosixel(1)

NAME
ppmtosixel - convert a portable pixmap into DEC sixel format SYNOPSIS
ppmtosixel [-raw] [-margin] [ppmfile] DESCRIPTION
Reads a portable pixmap as input. Produces sixel commands (SIX) as output. The output is formatted for color printing, e.g. for a DEC LJ250 color inkjet printer. If RGB values from the PPM file do not have maxval=100, the RGB values are rescaled. A printer control header and a color assignment table begin the SIX file. Image data is written in a compressed format by default. A printer control footer ends the image file. OPTIONS
-raw If specified, each pixel will be explicitly described in the image file. If -raw is not specified, output will default to com- pressed format in which identical adjacent pixels are replaced by "repeat pixel" commands. A raw file is often an order of magni- tude larger than a compressed file and prints much slower. -margin If -margin is not specified, the image will be start at the left margin (of the window, paper, or whatever). If -margin is speci- fied, a 1.5 inch left margin will offset the image. PRINTING
Generally, sixel files must reach the printer unfiltered. Use the lpr -x option or cat filename > /dev/tty0?. BUGS
Upon rescaling, truncation of the least significant bits of RGB values may result in poor color conversion. If the original PPM maxval was greater than 100, rescaling also reduces the image depth. While the actual RGB values from the ppm file are more or less retained, the color palette of the LJ250 may not match the colors on your screen. This seems to be a printer limitation. SEE ALSO
ppm(5) AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1991 by Rick Vinci. 26 April 1991 ppmtosixel(1)
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