The printf utility is not unique to bash; it is a standard utility present on any system that supports the common set of utilities defined by the POSIX standards and the Single UNIX Specification. But, if you're using awk to grab the 1st field out of your input file, you might as well just do all of the work in awk. If you just want to change the format of the first field in your file and print the updated line, you can use:
If you just want to print the dates and ignore the rest of the fields in in file, you can shorten this to:
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Hi Friends,
Can anyone guide me how to compute sum of column4 from the below file x using awk command? when i do using awk I'm getting sum 7482350198352648.000000 which is not accurate.
$ cat x
56,232,dfgjkhdfj,,56,anand
56,22,dfgjkhdfj,7482347823453123.97834 ,56,Khan
56,23,dfgjkhdfj, ... (6 Replies)
Hi,
Does anyone know a easy way to printf $3,$4, ... all the way to the last field in the file? I will need to modify $1 and $2 and then printf modified $1 and $2 and the rest of the fields(which are not changed).
I know I can use NF as the total number of field.
Do I use a for next statement to... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I've got a basic problem using printf statement in awk.
I want to write float values with always 8 characters width.
Examples :
1.345678
12.45678
123.4567
1234.678
-23.5678
-2.45678
-23456.8
.....
I cannot find the right printf format %8.1f, %7.5f....
Can anyone help ?... (4 Replies)
Hi friends..
I am confused about awk printf option..
I have a comma separated file
88562848,21-JAN-08,2741079, -1188,-7433,TESTING
88558314,21-JAN-08,2741189, -1273,-7976,TESTING
and there is a line in my script ( written by someone else)
What is the use of command?
I guess... (10 Replies)
Hi Friends,
Scripting newb here. So I'm trying to create a geektool script that uses awk and printf to output certain fields from top (namely command, cpu%, rsize, pid and time, in that order). After much trial and error, I've pretty much succeeded, with one exception. Any process whose name... (3 Replies)
Target file contains short text (never more than 1 line) and filenames.
The format is, e.g.,:
TEXT1
filename1
TEXT2
TEXT3
filename3dddd
filename3dddd
TEXT4
filename4
TEXT5
filename5dddd
filename5dddd
filename5
where dddd is a random 4-digit whole number.
Desired output: (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am using the following code to assign a count value to a variable. But I get nothing. Do you see anything wrong here.
I am new to all this.
$CTR=`remsh $m -l $MACHINES{$m} -n cat $output | grep -v sent | grep \"$input\" | sort -u | awk '{print $5}'`;
Upto sort - u it's... (2 Replies)
Hello
Here is an easy one
Data file
12345 (tab) Some text (tab) 53.432
23456 (tab) Some longer text (tab) 933.422
34567 (tab) Some different text (tab) 29.309
I need to awk these three tab-delimited columns so that the first two are unchanged (unformatted) and the third shows two decimal... (1 Reply)
Please help me format this file:
Source file looks like this, there are three columns, separated by space. First column has varrying width:
1 248105240 W25_2013
10 248103710 W06_2013
100 248103710 W06_2013
1000 248103710 W06_2013
I need to transform the file into a fixed width per column.... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: tamahomekarasu
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
history
HISTORY(5) File Formats Manual HISTORY(5)NAME
history - record of current and recently expired Usenet articles
DESCRIPTION
The file /var/lib/news/history keeps a record of all articles currently stored in the news system, as well as those that have been received
but since expired. In a typical production environment, this file will be many megabytes.
The file consists of text lines. Each line corresponds to one article. The file is normally kept sorted in the order in which articles
are received, although this is not a requirement. Innd(8) appends a new line each time it files an article, and expire(8) builds a new
version of the file by removing old articles and purging old entries.
Each line consists of two or three fields separated by a tab, shown below as :
<Message-ID> date
<Message-ID> date files
The Message-ID field is the value of the article's Message-ID header, including the angle brackets.
The date field consists of three sub-fields separated by a tilde. All sub-fields are the text representation of the number of seconds
since the epoch -- i.e., a time_t; see gettimeofday(2). The first sub-field is the article's arrival date. If copies of the article are
still present then the second sub-field is either the value of the article's Expires header, or a hyphen if no expiration date was speci-
fied. If an article has been expired then the second sub-field will be a hyphen. The third sub-field is the value of the article's Date
header, recording when the article was posted.
The files field is a set of entries separated by one or more spaces. Each entry consists of the name of the newsgroup, a slash, and the
article number. This field is empty if the article has been expired.
For example, an article cross-posted to comp.sources.unix and comp.sources.d that was posted on February 10, 1991 (and received three min-
utes later), with an expiration date of May 5, 1991, could have a history line (broken into two lines for display) like the following:
<312@litchi.foo.com> 666162000~673329600~666162180
comp.sources.unix/1104 comp.sources.d/7056
In addition to the text file, there is a dbz(3z) database associated with the file that uses the Message-ID field as a key to determine the
offset in the text file where the associated line begins. For historical reasons, the key includes the trailing byte (which is not
stored in the text file).
HISTORY
Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews. This is revision 1.12, dated 1996/09/06.
SEE ALSO dbz(3z), expire(8), innd(8), news-recovery(8).
HISTORY(5)