Factoring out the common string chr:
Try to avoid regex's if you can, to improve efficiency. Also, if you happen to know, to a reasonable extent, the frequency of occurrence of those strings, you could use simple string comparisons (with the proper order of comparisons) with the short-circuit logical OR (||) operator.
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I have a varable(var1) in a AWK script that contain data in the following format
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I need to extract timestamp,priority and log message.I can extract these by using split function but i don't want to use it, since i want to extract it in one go. I have some difficulties in doing it using... (3 Replies)
Ive got a file with words and also numbers.
Bla BLA
10 10
11 29
12 89
13 35
And i need to change "10,29,89,25" and also remove anything that contains actually words... (4 Replies)
I can print a line with an expression using this:
awk '/regex/'
I can print the line immediately before an expression using this:
awk '/regex/{print x};{x=$0}'
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Hello Experts,
Please help me to cope with the following problem
I ve patterens like
Input
Noptx(5) // remain the same
-*Nop(3);
Nop(9);
--Nop(8); // remain the same d3
**---Nop(7); //remain the same d3
**---Nop(7);
*--Nop(6);
--**Nop(5);
-Nop(4);
Nop(3);
- represents a space... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a string like this-->"After Executing service For 10 Request"
in this string i need to extract "10".
the contents of the string is variable and "10" appears before "For" and after "Request" i.e, in this format "For x Request"
I need to extract the value of x. How to do this in AWK?... (10 Replies)
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Hello world,
I was wondering if there is a nicer way to write the following code (in AWK):
awk '
FNR==NR&&$1~/^m$/{tok1=1}
FNR==NR&&$1~/^m10$/{tok1=1}
' my_file
In fact, it looks for m2, m4, m6, m8 and m10 and then return a positive flag. The problem is how to define 10 thanks... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
How am I read a file, find the match regular expression and overwrite to the same files.
open DESTINATION_FILE, "<tmptravl.dat" or die "tmptravl.dat";
open NEW_DESTINATION_FILE, ">new_tmptravl.dat" or die "new_tmptravl.dat";
while (<DESTINATION_FILE>)
{
# print... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a file with two fields in it as shown below
14,30
28,30
16,30
22,30
21,30
3,30
Fields are separated by comma ",".
I've been trying to validate the file based on the condition "each field must be a numeric value"
I am using HP-UX OS.
I have tried the following awk... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I would like to search a regular expression by passing as an i/p variableto AWK.
For Example ::
162.111.101.209.9516
162.111.101.209.41891
162.111.101.209.9516
162.111.101.209.9517
162.111.101.209.41918
162.111.101.209.9517
162.111.101.209.41937
162.111.101.209.41951... (7 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
look
look(1) User Commands look(1)NAME
look - find words in the system dictionary or lines in a sorted list
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/look [-d] [-f] [-tc] string [filename]
DESCRIPTION
The look command consults a sorted filename and prints all lines that begin with string.
If no filename is specified, look uses /usr/share/lib/dict/words with collating sequence -df.
look limits the length of a word to search for to 256 characters.
OPTIONS -d Dictionary order. Only letters, digits, TAB and SPACE characters are used in comparisons.
-f Fold case. Upper case letters are not distinguished from lower case in comparisons.
-tc Set termination character. All characters to the right of c in string are ignored.
FILES
/usr/share/lib/dict/words spelling list
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWesu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO grep(1), sort(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.11 29 Mar 1994 look(1)