I tried yours and it works exactly the way I wanted it to. It was giving errors until I used nawk and it comes out exactly like the way you have on the screen.
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Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
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Hi Jim,
- Just curious, what is the purpose of length($0)?
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Originally Posted by alister
You don't need comm nor multiple sort commands. Just one sort with both files as arguments whose output is piped directly into awk.
Within awk, you would have to track the value of the last field, $NF, to determine when to generate the missing lines.
Regards,
Alister
Thanks Alister, didn't realize I can do sort file1 file2
I've tried Jim's suggestion and it works fine, albeit with nawk. Just trying to see how I can get it to work usinig just awk this time 'coz some of the servers has only awk.
Here is what I am trying to do:
I have a list of numbers that I pulled from an awk command in a column like so:
1
3
4
7
8
I want to find which numbers in the list are missing out of a range. So let's say I want to find out from the list above which numbers are missing from the... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to cut to do a cut operation, but since there are seems to be more than one deltimiters in some occasion I am not able to get the exact field. Can you please provide an SED and AWK script for treating the source file in such a way that all consecutive delimiters are treated... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have an input file of the following style
input.txt
The 4000 at the end indicates the total no. of columns in that row.
I would like to replace all -1s with consecutive 1 and 2 and print the whole line again.
So, the output would be
output.txt
Thanks in advance. (7 Replies)
I do have a tab delimited file with the following format
200 46
201 67
204 89
205 98
206 89
208 890
210 23
..
...
100's of rows
I would like to output the missing consecutive number of the first column.
The expected output will be: (1 Reply)
Hello to all,
I have show below a file separated by commas. In first column has numbers where the last number is 13.
1,4
2,6
3,7
5,2
6,5
7,5
8,65
9,10
11,78
13,2
What I want to know is which numbers are missing from 1 to 13 (in this case 13 is last number in column 1). My real... (17 Replies)
Dear All,
I have a file with only one column. And I want to add every 3 consecutive numbers together and print the result.
Input File:
21.1
10
10
55
11
99
10
8
4
Expected Output:
41.1 (5 Replies)
Using the file below, which will always have the first indicated by the digit after the -
and last id in it, indicated by the digit after the -, I am trying to use awk
to print the missing line or lines in file following the pattern of the previous line.
For example, in the file below the next... (4 Replies)
Hi,
In an ideal scenario, I will have a listing of db transaction log that gets copied to a DR site and if I have them all, they will be numbered consecutively like below.
1_79811_01234567.arc
1_79812_01234567.arc
1_79813_01234567.arc
1_79814_01234567.arc
1_79815_01234567.arc... (3 Replies)