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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Print each paragraph in a text file into excel file Post 302777941 by prash358 on Friday 8th of March 2013 07:26:21 PM
Old 03-08-2013
Not sure i am getting below syntax errors.

Quote:
awk '
NR==1||/^ *$/{rec++}
{
sep=a[rec,$1]?"\n":"";
a[rec,$1]=a[rec,$1] sep $2
}
END{printf("dn\tuser_ok\tuser_bad\n");
for(i=1;i<=rec;i++)
printf("\"%s\"\t\"%s\"\t\"%s\"\n", a[i,"dn"], a[i,"user_ok"], a[i,"user_bad"])
}' FS=": *"


Quote:
test@unix1 >./test.sh input.txt > out.csv
awk: syntax error near line 4
awk: illegal statement near line 4
awk: syntax error near line 5
awk: illegal statement near line 5
awk: syntax error near line 9
awk: illegal statement near line 9
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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OPTIONS

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