I doubt what you need is a comparison == not assignment =:
Anyway awk is an overkill for this task. You can achieve this using a bash script: ---------- Post updated at 17:02 ---------- Previous update was at 16:49 ----------
By the way if it is assignment that you need, just modify the code to:
Hello,
I am trying to use AWK to print only the first field of numerous text files, and then overwrite these files. They are of the format 1*2,3,4,5. I have tried the following code (using tcsh):
foreach f (file1 file2 file3)
cat $f | awk -F'*' '{print $1}' > $f
end
However, I get very... (4 Replies)
I am new to unix and have pieced together two scripts that work independently.
The first checks all the filesystems and reports which are running low on space.
df -m | awk 'int($4) > 75 {
print $1 " has only " $3 "mb free from a total of " $2 ", this filesystem is
" $4 " full! \n"
}... (1 Reply)
Hey,
I know this is a stupid question, but it doesn't work.
I have a file with 10 lines and I want to pipe the content to awk and then print line 1 til 2 into another file and then line 3-4 ...
So my script looks like that, but doesn't work:
cat grid_ill.pts | awk '{
for (NR=1;NR<3;NR++)... (8 Replies)
I have two files which I would like to compare and then manipulate in a way.
File1:
pictures.txt 1.1 1.3
dance.txt 1.2 1.4
treehouse.txt 1.3 1.5
File2:
pictures.txt 1.5 ref2313 1.4 ref2345 1.3 ref5432 1.2 ref4244
dance.txt 1.6 ref2342 1.5 ref2352 1.4 ref0695 1.3 ref5738 1.2... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I was wondering if it is possible to do a loop on letters rather than numbers with awk (gawk).
Basically I used to do:
echo "nothing" | gawk '{for(i=1;i<11;i++)print i}'
But I would like to do something like that (which obviously does not work):
echo "nothing" | gawk '{for(i in... (6 Replies)
Hi, everyone!
I have a file, when I print its $1 out it show several strings like this:
AABBCC
AEFJKLFG
FALEF
FAIWEHF
What I want to do is that, after output of each record, search the string in all files in the same folder, print out the record and file name.
This is what I want... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I am new to AWK programming. I have the following for loop in my awk program.
cat printhtml.awk:
BEGIN
-------- <some code here>
END{
----------<some code here>
for(N=0; N<H; N++)
{
for(M=5; M<D; M++) print "\t" D "";
}
-----
}
... (2 Replies)
Hi
My Requirement is to take the sum of each column
below is the input file.
1 2 3 4
1 2 3 4
1 2 3 4
Initial i was using below command to achieve my desired result. however this was adding the row and not column.
i am not able understand why this is happening
awk... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I was searching the net for a solution for my problem... unfortunately nothing so far.
I want to sort on more than on column tab delimited file and keep the line if in the column I sort there is no value, but for those who have a value I want them only unique.
I have tried the... (5 Replies)