You can assign values to AWK variables on the command line. Consult the man page for how AWK handles arguments of the form var=value.
It is not my intention to be rude, but after nearly 500 posts and nearly 7 years of membership, not having learned the basics does not reflect well. I realize that not everyone who seeks assistance is a professional administrator or programmer, but, still, this is a very fundamental question.
I seem to have gotten myself in over my head on this one. I need help combining lines together.
I have a text file containing 24,000 lines (exactly why I need awk) due to bad formatting it has separated the lines (ideally it should be 12,000 lines total).
Example of file:
... (2 Replies)
I am using:
ps -A -o command,%cpu
to get process and cpu usage figures. I want to use awk to split up the columns it returns. If I use:
awk '{print "Process: "$1"\nCPU Usage: "$NF"\n"}'
the $NF will get me the value in the last column, but if there is more than one word in the... (2 Replies)
It would be convenient to be able to combine awk tests. For example, suppose that I do this query:
awk '$1 != "Bob" || $1 != "Linda" {print $2}' datafileIs there a reasonable way to combine the conditions into a single statement? For example, in egrep, I can do:
egrep -v "Bob|Linda"... (4 Replies)
I have a file like this consisting of blocks separated by > of two number X and T
>
10 0
13 5.92346
16 10.3106
19 13.9672
22 16.9838
25 19.4407
28 21.4705
31 23.1547
34 24.6813
37 26.0695
40 27.3611
43 28.631
46 29.8366
49 30.9858
52 32.0934
55 33.1458 (6 Replies)
I have a pretty simple script below:
#!/bin/sh
for i in *.cfg
do
temp=`awk '/^InputDirectory=/' ${i}`
input_dir=`echo ${temp} | awk '{ print substr( $0, 16) }'`
echo ${input_dir}
done
As you can see its opening each cfg file and searching for the line that has "InputDirectory="... (3 Replies)
Hi experts,
I have a requirement, In which I need to display the first and last line of a zip file where the line starts with "L". I've writen the code like below using sed and awk.
gunzip -c 20110203.1104.gz | awk '$1 ~ "^L" {print substr($0,178,15)}' | sed -n '1p;$p'
Is it possible to do it... (8 Replies)
Hello UNIX Community,
I have file that contains the following data:
testAwk2.csv
rabbit penguin goat
giraffe emu ostrich
hyena elephant panda
dog cat pig
lizard snake antelope
platypus tiger cheetah
lion rhino spider
I then find the character length of the... (1 Reply)
i have a datafile that has several lines that look like this:
2,dataflow,Sun Mar 17 16:50:01 2013,1363539001,2990,excelsheet,660,mortar,660,4
using the following command:
awk -F, '{$3=strftime("%a %b %d %T %Y,%s",$3)}1' OFS=, $DATAFILE | egrep -v "\-OLDISSUES," | ${AWK} "/${MONTH} ${DAY}... (7 Replies)
the following code works perfectly for me:
# AWK 1
gawk -F, '/,'${ThisMonthDOW}' '${ThisMonthMON}' :: '${ThisMonthYEA}',/ {
if (NF == 10)
... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: SkySmart
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
dpkg-awk
DPKG-AWK(1) General Commands Manual DPKG-AWK(1)NAME
dpkg-awk - Utility to read a dpkg style db file
SYNOPSIS
dpkg-awk [(-f|--file) filename] [(-d|--debug) ##] [(-s|--sort) list] [(-rs|--rec_sep) ??] '<fieldname>:<regex>' ... -- <out_fieldname> ..
DESCRIPTION
dpkg-awk Parses a dpkg status file (or other similarly formatted file) and outputs the resulting records. It can use regex on the field
values to limit the returned records, it can also be told which fields to output, and it can sort the matched fields.
OPTIONS -f filename
--file filename
The file to parse. The default is /var/lib/dpkg/status.
-d [#]
--debug [#]
Each time this is specified, it increased the debug level.
-s field(s)
--sort field(s)
A space or comma separated list of fields to sort on.
-n field(s)
--numeric field(s)
A space or comma separated list of fields that should be interpreted as numeric in value.
-rs ??
--rec_sep ??
Output this string at the end of each output paragraph.
-h
--help Display some help.
fieldname
The fields from the file, that are matched with the regex given. The fieldnames are case insensitive.
out_fieldname
The fields from the file, that are output for each record. If the first field listed begins with ^, then the list of fields that
follows will NOT be output.
BUGS
Be warned that the author has only a shallow understanding of the dpkg packaging system, so there are probably tons of bugs in this pro-
gram.
This program comes with no warranties. If running this program causes fire and brimstone to rain down upon the earth, you will be on your
own.
This program accesses the dpkg database directly in places, querying for data that cannot be gotten via dpkg.
AUTHOR
Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
DEBIAN Debian Utilities DPKG-AWK(1)