The only problem I have is that the second field "name" may or may not have a middle initial. This causes a leading space if the name does not include a middle initial. I am going to try to modify the infile first and then paste with the "-". I will post any updates in the hopes that this may help someone else.
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Last edited by Scott; 07-17-2012 at 04:54 AM..
Reason: Use coder tags, please...
Hello,
I have two files that I need to compare and print out the line from file2 that has the first 6 fields matching the first 6 fields in file1. Complicating this are the following restrictions
1. file1 is only a few thousand lines at most and file2 is greater than 2 million
2. I need to... (7 Replies)
Hi All,
I'm trying to figure out which are the trusted-ips and which are not using a script file.. I have a file named 'ip-list.txt' which contains some ip addresses and another file named 'trusted-ip-list.txt' which also contains some ip addresses. I want to read a line from... (4 Replies)
input:
field1
field2
field3 field4
output:
"field1";"field2";"field3";"field4"
My input file is shown above and I want output as shown using awk. the length of field3 is fixed so, the space between field3 and field4 can vary according to the value of field3. I am new to unix, so... (1 Reply)
input:
field1
field2
field3 field4
output:
"field1";"field2";"field3";"field4"
My input file is shown above and I want output as shown using awk. the length of field3 is fixed so, the space between field3 and field4 can vary according to the value of field3. I am new to unix, so can... (5 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a single line output like below
echo $ips
10.26.208.28 10.26.208.26 10.26.208.27
want to convert above single line output as below format. Pls advice how to do ?
10.26.208.28
10.26.208.26
10.26.208.27
Regards
Kannan (6 Replies)
I am new to awk scripting.
I want to do a field by word (field) comparison of two files File1.txt and File2.txt.
The files contain a list of | (pipe) separated field.
**File 1:
-------------------
aaa|bbb|ccc|eee|fff
lll|mmm|nnn|ooo|ppp
rrr|sss|ttt|uuu|vvv**
File 2: ... (7 Replies)
Hi,
i have a scenario were i should compare a few fields from each line then increment a variable based on that.
Example file
989878|8999|Y|0|Y|N|V
989878|8999|Y|0|N|N|V
989878|8999|Y|2344|Y|N|V
i have 3 conditions to check and increment a variable on every line
condition 1 if ( $3... (4 Replies)
PASTE(1) User Commands PASTE(1)NAME
paste - merge lines of files
SYNOPSIS
paste [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Write lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output. With no FILE, or
when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-d, --delimiters=LIST
reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs
-s, --serial
paste one file at a time instead of in parallel
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report paste translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
AUTHOR
Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 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 paste is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and paste programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info coreutils 'paste invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.22 June 2014 PASTE(1)
07-16-2012
