Source file looks like this, there are three columns, separated by space. First column has varrying width:
I need to transform the file into a fixed width per column. Column 1 should have 20 characters, column 2 should have 20 characters as well while column 3 should have 8 characters. Output should be like this:
Hi Friends,
Can anyone guide me how to compute sum of column4 from the below file x using awk command? when i do using awk I'm getting sum 7482350198352648.000000 which is not accurate.
$ cat x
56,232,dfgjkhdfj,,56,anand
56,22,dfgjkhdfj,7482347823453123.97834 ,56,Khan
56,23,dfgjkhdfj, ... (6 Replies)
Hi,
Does anyone know a easy way to printf $3,$4, ... all the way to the last field in the file? I will need to modify $1 and $2 and then printf modified $1 and $2 and the rest of the fields(which are not changed).
I know I can use NF as the total number of field.
Do I use a for next statement to... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I've got a basic problem using printf statement in awk.
I want to write float values with always 8 characters width.
Examples :
1.345678
12.45678
123.4567
1234.678
-23.5678
-2.45678
-23456.8
.....
I cannot find the right printf format %8.1f, %7.5f....
Can anyone help ?... (4 Replies)
Hi friends..
I am confused about awk printf option..
I have a comma separated file
88562848,21-JAN-08,2741079, -1188,-7433,TESTING
88558314,21-JAN-08,2741189, -1273,-7976,TESTING
and there is a line in my script ( written by someone else)
What is the use of command?
I guess... (10 Replies)
Hi Friends,
Scripting newb here. So I'm trying to create a geektool script that uses awk and printf to output certain fields from top (namely command, cpu%, rsize, pid and time, in that order). After much trial and error, I've pretty much succeeded, with one exception. Any process whose name... (3 Replies)
Target file contains short text (never more than 1 line) and filenames.
The format is, e.g.,:
TEXT1
filename1
TEXT2
TEXT3
filename3dddd
filename3dddd
TEXT4
filename4
TEXT5
filename5dddd
filename5dddd
filename5
where dddd is a random 4-digit whole number.
Desired output: (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am using the following code to assign a count value to a variable. But I get nothing. Do you see anything wrong here.
I am new to all this.
$CTR=`remsh $m -l $MACHINES{$m} -n cat $output | grep -v sent | grep \"$input\" | sort -u | awk '{print $5}'`;
Upto sort - u it's... (2 Replies)
Hello
Here is an easy one
Data file
12345 (tab) Some text (tab) 53.432
23456 (tab) Some longer text (tab) 933.422
34567 (tab) Some different text (tab) 29.309
I need to awk these three tab-delimited columns so that the first two are unchanged (unformatted) and the third shows two decimal... (1 Reply)
I have a very large file with more than 500,000 lines of dated events.
The first field contains the date/time in the following format:
20120727-files.files:20120727090044
where the first 8 numbers represent yyyymmdd. The last set of numbers represent yyyy/mm/dd/hh:mm:ss
I would like to... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: LDHB2012
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column
COLUMN(1) BSD General Commands Manual COLUMN(1)NAME
column -- columnate lists
SYNOPSIS
column [-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The column utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows are filled before columns. Input is taken from file operands, or, by
default, from the standard input. Empty lines are ignored.
The options are as follows:
-c Output is formatted for a display columns wide.
-s Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option.
-t Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with
the characters supplied using the -s option. Useful for pretty-printing displays.
-x Fill columns before filling rows.
ENVIRONMENT
The COLUMNS, LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of column as described in environ(7).
EXIT STATUS
The column utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
(printf "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY " ;
printf "HH:MM/YEAR NAME
" ;
ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t
SEE ALSO colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1)HISTORY
The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.
BUGS
Input lines are limited to LINE_MAX (2048) bytes in length.
BSD July 29, 2004 BSD