I am accessing two files. I am using read command to read from the files.
For the first file, I need read the fields delimited by spaces, and for the other file, I need to read the whole line as a single field including the spaces.
When I used read command for the second file, the spaces... (4 Replies)
I need to tweek my awk output:
#cat filename
ab cd ef:ghi:jk lm:nop qrs
#cat filename | awk '{ for(i=3;i<NF+1;i++) printf $i}'
ef:ghi:jklm:nopqrs
I would like the ouput to include the original spaces from columns 3 on:
ef:ghi:jk lm:nop qrs
any suggestions? (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a script that reads a file and echo it back to std out.
Test.txt
1aaaaaaaaaaa .
The script is ReadLine.sh
#!/bin/ksh
cat $1 | while read file
do
echo $file
done
I invoke the script as ReadLine.sh Test.txt
The output that I get is (1 Reply)
Hi All,
file_1.txt contains
aaa bbbb hhhh
vvvvv mmmmm iiiii
What i want is to search for the first coloumn of each line using awk.i.e as below:
awk '/aaa/ {printf(<>)}' file_1.txt
The print part (<>) should contain all the values(or coloumns ) in the particular line(here it... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to print every line from first field to the fourth from a file containing more.
$ cat input
a b c d e f g
a b c d e f gI'm trying
awk '{for (i=1; i <= NF-3; i++) print $i}' awkTest.datbut it printsa
b
c
d
a
b
c
dSo, I easily guess I'm wrong. :)
Of course, I want:a b... (5 Replies)
Hello all,
I want to list the file contents of the directory and number them. I am using la and awk to do it now,
#ls |awk '{print NR "." $1}'
1. alpha
2. beta
3. gamma
The problem I have is that some files might also have some spaces in the filenames.
#ls
alpha beta gamma ... (7 Replies)
When I use:
find . -ls | awk 'BEGIN { OFS = ";"} {print $1,$2,$11}'I get a nice result, yet the files with spaces in it show only the first word and all other characters after the blank space are not printed.
e.g. 'file with a blank space'
is printed
file
'file_with a blank space'
is... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I'm using awk to print columns from a tab delimited text file:
awk '{print " "$2" "$3" $6"}' file
The problem I have is column 6 contains text with spaces etc which means awk only prints the first word.
How can I tell awk to print the whole column content as column 6?
Thanks, (10 Replies)
Hi,
In a csv file, I want to select records where first column has zero or multiple spaces.
Eg: abc.csv
,123,a
,22,b
,11,c
a,11,d
So output should be:
,123,a
,22,b
,11,c
Please advise (5 Replies)
Hi all,
I want to set 10 set of strings into a variable where:
removing all spaces within each string
change the delimiter from "|" to ","
Currently, I've the below script like this:Table=`ten character strings with spaces in-between and each string with delimiter "|" | tr -d ' ' |... (7 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
dpkg-awk
DPKG-AWK(1) General Commands Manual DPKG-AWK(1)NAME
dpkg-awk - Utility to read a dpkg style db file
SYNOPSIS
dpkg-awk [(-f|--file) filename] [(-d|--debug) ##] [(-s|--sort) list] [(-rs|--rec_sep) ??] '<fieldname>:<regex>' ... -- <out_fieldname> ..
DESCRIPTION
dpkg-awk Parses a dpkg status file (or other similarly formatted file) and outputs the resulting records. It can use regex on the field
values to limit the returned records, it can also be told which fields to output, and it can sort the matched fields.
OPTIONS -f filename
--file filename
The file to parse. The default is /var/lib/dpkg/status.
-d [#]
--debug [#]
Each time this is specified, it increased the debug level.
-s field(s)
--sort field(s)
A space or comma separated list of fields to sort on.
-n field(s)
--numeric field(s)
A space or comma separated list of fields that should be interpreted as numeric in value.
-rs ??
--rec_sep ??
Output this string at the end of each output paragraph.
-h
--help Display some help.
fieldname
The fields from the file, that are matched with the regex given. The fieldnames are case insensitive.
out_fieldname
The fields from the file, that are output for each record. If the first field listed begins with ^, then the list of fields that
follows will NOT be output.
BUGS
Be warned that the author has only a shallow understanding of the dpkg packaging system, so there are probably tons of bugs in this pro-
gram.
This program comes with no warranties. If running this program causes fire and brimstone to rain down upon the earth, you will be on your
own.
This program accesses the dpkg database directly in places, querying for data that cannot be gotten via dpkg.
AUTHOR
Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
DEBIAN Debian Utilities DPKG-AWK(1)