I want to extract the proper names with awk from a very long string, like:
The output I want:
Gary Oldman
(George Smiley)
Colin Firth
(Bill Haydon)
Tom Hardy
(Ricki Tarr)
John Hurt
(Control)
Toby Jones
(Percy Alleline)
Mark Strong
(Jim Prideaux)
etc.
Thanks
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My mistake: It's a one-line only string, and I changed "href" to "something", but I think it doesn't matter.
I'm executing "wc -lc" command in a c shell script to get record count and byte counts and writing them to a file. I get the result with the full pathname of the file. But I do not want the path name to be printed in the output file. I heard that using Awk we can get this but I don't have any... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I am new to this shell scripting world. Struck up with a problem, can anyone of you please pull me out of this.
Requirement : Need to get the index of a substring from a parent string
Eg : index("Sandy","dy") should return 4 or 3.
My Approach :
I used Awk function index to... (2 Replies)
I have a folder of scripts:
bash:/folderpath/> ls
beginFile.sh
beginFileBackup.sh
beginAnother.sh
beginAnotherBackup.sh
beginJunk.sh
beginJunkBackup.sh
I'd like to be able to call just one (beginFile.sh) using this type of scheme:
#Run the beginFile script without the word "Backup" in... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a file which has thousand of lines with lines starting with
And I want to extract and show to user only the below string from all the lines
Please note note that the above string is a time stamp and it would be different on all the lines.
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hello forum members
I have txt file which consists the following information.
Server: abababa.xyz.ap.mxmx.com
Address: 111.143.211.202
Name: rmxd.ipc.ap.mxmx.com
Address: 144.111.99.9
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I have these files in a directory. It may have more class than the sample below:
DEPT_CHEM101LEC_D_20110301.DAT
DEPT_CHEM101LAB_D_20110301.DAT
DEPT_BIO105LEC_D_20110325.DAT
DEPT_BIO105LAB_D_20110325.DAT
DEPT_CSC308LEC_D_20110327.DAT
DEPT_CSC308LAB_D_20110327.DAT
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I'd like to copy strings from a log file and put them into a CSV.
The strings could be on different line numbers, depending on size of log.
Example Log File:
File = foo.bat
Date = 11/11/11
User = Foo Bar
Size = 1024
...
CSV should look like:
"foo.bat","11/11/11","Foo Bar","1024" (7 Replies)
Hi
I am executing below command to do summation on 46th coloumn.
cat File1| awk -F"|" '{p += $46} END { printf"Column Name | SUM | " p}'
I am getting output as
Column Name | SUM | 1.01139e+10
Here I want output in Proper decimal format. Can someone tell me what change is required for same? (1 Reply)
What is the proper way to run two commands together?
For example, in the below I would like run a command in bold then pipe that output to awk to re-format it. Thank you :).
bedtools nuc -fi /home/cmccabe/Desktop/bed/hg19.fa -bed /home/cmccabe/Desktop/bed/xgen_baits.bed >... (3 Replies)
Hi -
i have one file with content as below.
***** BEGIN 123 *****
BASH is awesome
***** END *****
***** BEGIN 365 *****
KSH is awesome
***** END *****
***** BEGIN 157 *****
KSH is awesome
***** END *****
***** BEGIN 7123 *****
C is awesome
***** END *****
I am trying to find all... (4 Replies)