1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello I am trying to sort on the last field and it seems to have lost ideas on what to do. the file am sorting looks like this Tan\da\1223 hey\1234 two\three\think\4579 i want to sort on the last fields (1223, 1234 and 4579). thank you (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to find the top N entries for a certain field based on the values of another field. For example if N=3, we want the 3 best values for each entry: Entry1 ||| 100 Entry1 ||| 95 Entry1 ||| 30 Entry1 ||| 80 Entry1 ||| 50 Entry2 ||| 40 Entry2 ||| 20 Entry2 ||| 10 Entry2 ||| 50... (1 Reply)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

So, I need to do some summing. I have an Apache log file with the following as a typical line: 127.0.0.1 - frank "GET /apache_pb.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 2326 Now, what I'd like to do is a per-minute sum. So, I can have awk tell me the individual minutes, preserving the dates(since this is a... (7 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, Sorry the title is a mess, but did not find a better description at the time. So here is my problem: I have an input file: 8:Mass40s -- 0 48:Mass40s -- 0 67:Mass40s -- 0 86:Mass40s -- 0 105:Mass40s -- 0 9:Mass -- 1 49:Mass -- 86... (5 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a file that has data in it that says 00:01:48.233 1212 00:01:56.233 345 00:09:01.221 5678 00:12:23.321 93444 The file has more line than this but i just wanted to put in a snippet to ask how I would get the highest number with time stamp into another file. So from the above... (2 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I have two files, one of which I would like to sort based on the order of the data in the second. I would like to do this using a simple unix statement. My two files as follows: File 1: 12345 1 2 2 2 0 0 12349 0 0 2 2 1 2 12350 1 2 1 2 2 2 . . . File2: 12350... (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 This is my file. Two fields separated by space $ cat testfile.txt MARCH9 MARCH4 MARCH1 MARCH5 MARCH2 MARCH326 MARCH821 MARCH7 MARCH6 MARCH2 $ $ The following numeric sort, based on the first field's 6th character works as expected. $ $ sort -n -k 1.6... (7 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

In the tab-delimeted input file below I am trying to use awk to update the value in $2 if TYPE=ins in bold, by adding the value of HRUN= in italics. In the below since in line 1 TYPE=ins the 117282541 value in $2 has 6 added because that is the value of HRUN=. Hopefully the awk is a start but I... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to output a tab-delimited result that uses the data from a tab-delimited file to combine and subtract specific lines. If $4 matches in each line then the first matching sequential $6 value is added to $2, unless the value is 1, then the original $2 is used (like in the case of line... (3 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi, So awk is driving me crazy on this one. I have searched everywhere and read man, docs and every related post Google can find and still no luck. The actual files I need to run this on are sensitive in nature, but it is the same thing as if I needed to calculate weighted grades for multiple... (15 Replies)