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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk & zcat not working together Post 302793679 by RudiC on Saturday 13th of April 2013 04:39:59 AM
Old 04-13-2013
Your code can't work for several reasons.
Code:
awk 'FNR==1 {++counter}                      # fine, you count no. of files
     counter ==2 {BB[$1]=1; next}            # from the second file, keep $1. But, there's no second file, as scrutinizer pointed out.
     substr($0,26,2) =="01") {next}          # is never met in your sample input, which is fine if you want to keep all lines. One closing paranthesis too many!
     (substr($0,28,12) ~ "^[A-Z,a-z]") {next}   # would succeed on your tar's second input line if you came that far
     (substr($0,184,3) in BB) {next}         # your longest line has 177 chars
     1
    ' bb.txt                                 # just one file to work upon; see scrutinizer's post

All your code does is print your bb.txt lines.

If you need further help, specify what output you want from which input based on which logic, in plain English.
 

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ppmtosixel

ppmtosixel(1)                                                 General Commands Manual                                                ppmtosixel(1)

NAME

       ppmtosixel - convert a portable pixmap into DEC sixel format

SYNOPSIS

       ppmtosixel [-raw] [-margin] [ppmfile]

DESCRIPTION

       Reads  a  portable  pixmap  as input.  Produces sixel commands (SIX) as output.  The output is formatted for color printing, e.g. for a DEC
       LJ250 color inkjet printer.

       If RGB values from the PPM file do not have maxval=100, the RGB values are rescaled.  A printer control header and a color assignment table
       begin the SIX file.  Image data is written in a compressed format by default.  A printer control footer ends the image file.

OPTIONS

       -raw   If  specified,  each  pixel  will  be explicitly described in the image file.  If -raw is not specified, output will default to com-
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PRINTING

       Generally, sixel files must reach the printer unfiltered.  Use the lpr -x option or cat filename > /dev/tty0?.

BUGS

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SEE ALSO

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AUTHOR

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