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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Adding Fields to the file Post 302746877 by pamu on Thursday 20th of December 2012 06:23:33 AM
Old 12-20-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Arun Mishra
can anybody explain what the below line does?
Code:
$i = $i != "" ? $i : (i == 2 || i == 3) ? "ND" : " "

can i modify it to remove the condition for 2nd and 3rd field and default all additional fields to space apart from the existing one's and if an existing contains null it will be defaulted to null.
Code:
$i = $i != "" ? $i : (i == 2 || i == 3) ? "ND" : " "

Here it checks if $i not equals to null (""). If True then $i keep it as it is. If false then check i == 2 OR 3 if true then set $i="ND" and if false then set $i=" ".

If i got it your requirement right. You want all the values which is not present to null. and keep null value as it is.
try
Code:
$i = $i != "" ? $i:""

OR

Code:
awk -F '"' '
NR > 1{    for(i = 1; i <= NF; i += 2) gsub(/,/, "|", $i)
    print
}' OFS="" file | awk 'BEGIN{FS = OFS = "|"}
{    for(i = NF+1; i <= 20; i++)
        $i="";
    print
}'

 

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ppmtosixel

ppmtosixel(1)						      General Commands Manual						     ppmtosixel(1)

NAME

       ppmtosixel - convert a portable pixmap into DEC sixel format

SYNOPSIS

       ppmtosixel [-raw] [-margin] [ppmfile]

DESCRIPTION

       Reads  a  portable  pixmap  as input.  Produces sixel commands (SIX) as output.	The output is formatted for color printing, e.g. for a DEC
       LJ250 color inkjet printer.

       If RGB values from the PPM file do not have maxval=100, the RGB values are rescaled.  A printer control header and a color assignment table
       begin the SIX file.  Image data is written in a compressed format by default.  A printer control footer ends the image file.

OPTIONS

       -raw   If  specified,  each  pixel  will  be explicitly described in the image file.  If -raw is not specified, output will default to com-
	      pressed format in which identical adjacent pixels are replaced by "repeat pixel" commands.  A raw file is often an order	of  magni-
	      tude larger than a compressed file and prints much slower.

       -margin
	      If  -margin  is not specified, the image will be start at the left margin (of the window, paper, or whatever).  If -margin is speci-
	      fied, a 1.5 inch left margin will offset the image.

PRINTING

       Generally, sixel files must reach the printer unfiltered.  Use the lpr -x option or cat filename > /dev/tty0?.

BUGS

       Upon rescaling, truncation of the least significant bits of RGB values may result in poor color conversion.  If the original PPM maxval was
       greater	than  100,  rescaling  also reduces the image depth.  While the actual RGB values from the ppm file are more or less retained, the
       color palette of the LJ250 may not match the colors on your screen.  This seems to be a printer limitation.

SEE ALSO

       ppm(5)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 1991 by Rick Vinci.

								   26 April 1991						     ppmtosixel(1)
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