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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Help using awk with a text file Post 302788685 by ziggy6 on Tuesday 2nd of April 2013 10:45:53 AM
Old 04-02-2013
Using Awk with text file
This is a major step in the right direction, but the output file names still have not been specified. Do you really want leading spaces on the output file names when customer numbers are less than five digits? It is easy to put them in (as requested), but it will make handling these files harder for you. Would you prefer to have leading zeroes added so the filename always starts with a 5 digit customer number? I would not use leading spaces for the account #, I can either have it with leading zero's or without, I prefer without leading zero's.

Where do the last 4 digits of the output file names come from? They don't come from the dates on lines 8, 18, or 19 in your 55 line statements. Are they always supposed to be 0313? Are they supposed to be the two digit month and two digit year corresponding to the date when the script is run? The last 4 digits will come from the system time and date which will always be run on the last day of the month so I would use month and year. I usually use the following to come up with my date,
date '+ %c/%m/%d' > date hold
y=`cat date.hold | cut -c24-25`
m=`cat date.hold | cut -c27 -c28`
then I would use variables $y and $m in naming the file

Are the multiple occurrences of the strings "^L" and "^M" in you input file literal characters that you want kept in the output files? Are they a graphic representation of form feed and carriage return characters that you want kept in the output files? Or, are they a graphic representation of form feed and carriage return characters that you want to be stripped from the output? As you noted they are carriage return and form feed and I would want them in the output file as well

If there are multiple statements for a given customer number, are they always adjacent records in the input file? Yes, if a statement is more than 1 page it would be adjacent to the first statement so if account 9 had multiple pages one would follow after the other.

What shell do you want to use and what operating system are you using? SCO 5.0.7 and using the bourne shell
 

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