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 HPUX
mailq
mailq(1) General Commands Manual mailq(1)NAME
mailq - prints the mail queue
SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION
prints a summary of the mail messages queued for future delivery.
The first line printed for each message shows the internal identifier used on this host for the message, the size of the message in bytes,
the date and time the message was accepted into the queue, and the envelope sender of the message. The second line shows the error message
that caused this message to be retained in the queue; it will not be present if the message is being processed for the first time. The
status characters are:
to indicate that the job is being processed
to indicate that the load is too high to process the job
to indicate that the job is too new in the queue to process.
The output lines that follow the second line show the message recipients, one per line.
is identical to
Options
The supported options are:
Show the mail submission queue specified in the
file instead of the MTA queue specified in the file.
Show the lost items in the mail queue instead of normal queue items.
Show the quarantined items in the mail queue instead
of the normal queue items.
Limit processed jobs to those containing
substr as a substring of the queue ID or not when is specified.
Limit processed jobs to quarantined jobs containing
substr as a substring of the quarantine reason or not when is specified.
Limit processed jobs to those containing
substr as a substring of one of the recipients or not when is specified.
Limit processed jobs to those containing
substr as a substring of the sender or not when is specified.
Print verbose information.
This adds the priority of the message and a single character indicator or blank) indicating whether a warning message has
been sent on the first line of the message. In addition, extra lines may be intermixed with the recipients indicating the
`controlling user' information. This shows who owns the programs that are executed on behalf of this message and the name
of the alias this command expanded from, if any.
RETURN VALUE
The utility exits with 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
AUTHOR
was developed by the University of California, Berkeley, and originally appeared in 4.0BSD.
FILES
mail queue files for
SEE ALSO sendmail(1M).
mailq(1)