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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Adding columns with values dependent on existing columns Post 302765829 by Yoda on Sunday 3rd of February 2013 02:46:34 PM
Old 02-03-2013
Try this code:
Code:
awk 'NR==1 {
        print;
  } NR>1 {
        if((length($3)==1)&&(length($4)>1)) {
                print;
                print $1,$2,$3,$4,$2,$2+2;
        }
        else if((length($3)>1)) {
                print;
                print $1,$2,$3,$4,$2-1,$2+length($3)+1;
        }
        else
                print;
}' OFS='\t' filename

 

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