no , I need to do several processings for each line
not just use awk over each line
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Originally Posted by elixir_sinari
When evaluating, double-quote the variable line:
You are looping over the file lines to use awk on a line at a time? That'd be pretty inefficient. You may replace everything in the loop with just a single awk.
I'm reading from a file that is semi-colon delimited. One of the fields contains 2 spaces separating the first and last name (4th field in - "JOHN<space><space> DOE"):
e.g. TORONTO;ONTARIO;1 YONGE STREET;JOHN DOE;CANADA
When I read this record and either echo/print to screen or write to... (4 Replies)
i have a commad that display the total each directory size in KB.Below the commad and o/p:
ls -ltr | grep ^d | awk '{print $9}' | xargs du -sk
output:
what i want is the proper tab space b/w value and dir.? how to get that.
thanks in advance (10 Replies)
Wants to print line when there exist leading or trailing space or tab in fields 2,3 and 5
The below code prints all lines in file even if they dont have leading and trailing space or tab.
nawk -F"|" '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) {if ($i ~ "^*" || $i ~ "*$")}}1' file
file
Ouput required:
... (5 Replies)
Hi,
So my file looks like this:
title number
JR 2
JR 2
JR 4
JR 5
NM 5
NM 8
NM 2
NM 8
I used this line that I wrote to convert it to rows so it will look like this:
awk -F"\t" '!/^$/{a=a" "$3} END {for ( i in a) {print i,a}}' occ_output.tab > test.txt
JR 2 2 4 5
NM 5 8... (4 Replies)
Hello,
Is there a direct command to check if the delimiter in your file is a tab or a space? And how can they be converted from one to another.
Thanks,
G (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a space delimited text file but I only want to change the first space to a tab and keep the rest of the spaces intact. How do I go about doing that? Thanks! (3 Replies)
I have a variable sumOfJEOutputFile which is the output file of an SQL command which contains the output of that SQL. The output looks like below:
-----------
58
I am using following code to manipulate the output:
(sed 1,2d $sumOfJEOutputFile > $newTemp1 | sed '$d' $newTemp1)... (4 Replies)
My file looks like
3 33 210.01.10.0 2.1 1211 560 26 45 1298 98763451112 15412323499 INPUT OK
3 233 40.01.10.0 2.1 1451 780 54 99 1876 78787878784 15423210199 CANCEL OK
Aim is to replace the spaces in each line by tab
Used: sed -e 's/ */\t/g'
But I get output like this... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
roff
is a text formatter. Its input consists of the text to be out-
put, intermixed with formatting commands. A formatting commandis a line containing the control character followed by a twocharacter command name, and possibly one or more arguments. Thecontrol character is initially . (dot). The formatted output isproduced on standard output. The formatting commands are listedbelow, with being a number, being a character, and being a title.A + before n means it may be signed, indicating a positive ornegative change from the current value. Initial values for whererelevant, are given in parentheses.
.ad Adjust right margin.
.ar Arabic page numbers.
.br Line break. Subsequent text will begin on a new line.
.bl n Insert n blank lines.
.bp +n Begin new page and number it n. No n means +1.
.cc c Control character is set to c.
.ce n Center the next n input lines.
.de zz Define a macro called zz. A line with .. ends definition.
.ds Double space the output. Same as .ls 2.
.ef t Even page footer title is set to t.
.eh t Even page header title is set to t.
.fi Begin filling output lines as full as possible.
.fo t Footer titles (even and odd) are set to t.
.hc c The character c (e.g., %) tells roff where hyphens are permitted.
.he t Header titles (even and odd) are set to t.
.hx Header titles are suppressed.
.hy n Hyphenation is done if n is 1, suppressed if it is 0. Default is 1.
.ig Ignore input lines until a line beginning with .. is found.
.in n Indent n spaces from the left margin; force line break.
.ix n Same as .in but continue filling output on current line.
.li n Literal text on next n lines. Copy to output unmodified.
.ll +n Line length (including indent) is set to n (65).
.ls +n Line spacing: n (1) is 1 for single spacing, 2 for double, etc.
.m1 n Insert n (2) blank lines between top of page and header.
.m2 n Insert n (2) blank lines between header and start of text.
.m3 n Insert n (1) blank lines between end of text and footer.
.m4 n Insert n (3) blank lines between footer and end of page.
.na No adjustment of the right margin.
.ne n Need n lines. If fewer are left, go to next page.
.nn +n The next n output lines are not numbered.
.n1 Number output lines in left margin starting at 1.
.n2 n Number output lines starting at n. If 0, stop numbering.
.ni +n Indent line numbers by n (0) spaces.
.nf No more filling of lines.
.nx f Switch input to file f.
.of t Odd page footer title is set to t.
.oh t Odd page header title is set to t.
.pa +n Page adjust by n (1). Same as .bp
.pl +n Paper length is n (66) lines.
.po +n Page offset. Each line is started with n (0) spaces.
.ro Page numbers are printed in Roman numerals.
.sk n Skip n pages (i.e., make them blank), starting with next one.
.sp n Insert n blank lines, except at top of page.
.ss Single spacing. Equivalent to .ls 1.
.ta Set tab stops, e.g., .ta 9 17 25 33 41 49 57 65 73 (default).
.tc c Tabs are expanded into c. Default is space.
.ti n Indent next line n spaces; then go back to previous indent.
.tr ab Translate a into b on output.
.ul n Underline the letters and numbers in the next n lines.