1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Is there anyway to get awk to treat multiple delimiters as one? Particularly spaces... (6 Replies)

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I posted this in Shell scripting... maybe I'll try it in this forum.. ***************** I wrote a script to stop a process,truncate its log files and re-start the process... We are using Progress Software in Unix ( Sun Sparc) When ever I start this progress program , it should kick off a... (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello , I want to segregate by file contents in a much simpler format ie input file Wednesday May 16 11:59:44 IST 2007 90376 44136 process1 pid1 90200 43208 process1 pid2 90200 43208 process1 pid3 90200 43208 process1 pid4 Wednesday May 16 12:00:45 IST 2007 90376 44136 process1 pid1... (1 Reply)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I need a script that reads the out put of a command (softwareupdate --list) and will tally up the number of asterisks in the output and tell me how many there were. How do I go about getting my script to treat asterisks as a regular character and not a wildcard or some other operator? (8 Replies)

5. Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions

Hi, I have an awk script which performs simple operations of variable assignments and finally printing the variables in custom form. BEGIN {FS=OFS="\n"} { v1=substr($0,1,15) v2=substr($0,16,200) v3=substr($0,216,20) print v1 "|" v2 "|" v3 } The input file being processed... (2 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi everyone! first of all thank you all for the forum. My question is, is there a bash or java program, which addresses the existing text in the html that is visible in the web page for editing by another string, eg name1: flakjsdlñfjas Name of father: fdfjaksdfjskdfsd Well it... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want the below script to omit every chunk of data that contains a specific hostname. here's the scenario. i have a configuration file that contains the configuration of several hosts. a sample of this configuration file is this: define host { address ... (12 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Gurus, I hit a hard block in my script. when using awk command with variable, I got different result. Please see below: my test file as below: $ cat demofile.txt filename-yyyy-abcd filename-xxx-week-pass filename-xxx-week-run for testing purpose, I put 3 awk command in one script.... (7 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

can someone help me identify what i'm doing wrong here: awk -F'|' 'BEGIN{c=0} /./ && /./ { if ($3 < 2) { print ; c++ } END { print c":OK" } else if (($3 >= 2) && ($3 < 4)) { print ; c++ } END { print c":WARNING" } else if ($3 >= 4) { print ; c++ } END { print c":CRITICAL" } }'... (4 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, awk seem to be acting differently in Unix and Linux when it comes to formatting. This is making it difficult to migrate scripts. for example: UNIX: echo "123" |awk '{printf ("%05s\n" ,$1)}' 00123 echo "123" |awk '{printf ("%05d\n" ,$1)}' 00123 echo "S12" |awk '{printf ("%05s\n"... (9 Replies)