Note: FS="**" only works in some awks, where it may happen to mean "zero or more asterisks" .
However, this is not defined behaviour..
Quote:
The <asterisk>, <plus-sign>, <question-mark>, and <left-brace> shall be special except when used in a bracket expression (see RE Bracket Expression). Any of the following uses produce undefined results:
If these characters appear first in an ERE, or immediately following a <vertical-line>, <circumflex>, or <left-parenthesis>
If a <left-brace> is not part of a valid interval expression (see EREs Matching Multiple Characters)
Hi!
I have some shell scripts receiving in input lots of parameters and I need to select the ones having a particular value in one parameter.
A typical shell command line is:
PROMPT > shell_name.ksh -avalue_a -bvalue_b -cvalue_c -dvalue_d ...
I used a combinaton of ps and grep commands... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I did not understand why the following did not work out as I expected:
find . -name "pqp.txt" | grep -v "Permission"
I thought I would be able to catch whichever paths containing my pqp.txt file without receiving the display of messages such as "find: cannot access... Permisson... (1 Reply)
Alright, I'm sure there's a more efficient way to do this... I'm not an expert by any means. What I'm trying to do is search a file for lines that match the two input words (first name, last name) in order to remove that line. The removal part is what I'm struggling with. Here is my code:
echo... (4 Replies)
I am parsing a nagios config, searching for a string, and then printing the line 2 lines later (the "members" string). Here's the data:
define hostgroup{
hostgroup_name chat-dev
alias chat-dev
members thisisahostname
}
define hostgroup{
... (1 Reply)
Find in first column and replace the line with Awk, and output new file
File1.txt"2011-11-02","Georgia","Atlanta","x","",""
"2011-11-03","California","Los Angeles","x","",""
"2011-11-04","Georgia","Atlanta","x","x","x"
"2011-11-05","Georgia","Atlanta","x","x","" ... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have Solaris-10 server. /usr/ucb/ps auxww is showing full path if I am running it from root. But if I run it from non-root user, its output is truncated. I don't want to use any other alternate command.
Please suggest, what can be its solution.
Terminal is set to term. (21 Replies)
Hi guy,
I have an output command like this:
Policy Name: NBU.POL.ORA.PROD
Policy Type: Oracle
Active: yes
HW/OS/Client: Linux RedHat2.6 node1
Iclude: /usr/openv/netbackup/scripts/backup_ora1.bash
I would like to parse the... (1 Reply)
Hello.
I have been looking high and low for the solution for this. I seems there should be a simple answer, but alas.
I have a big xml file, and I need to extract certain information from specific items. The information I need can be found between a specific set of tags. let's call them... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have some code that works more or less. This is called by a make file to adjust some hard-coded definitions in the src code. The script generated some values by looking at some of the src files and then writes those values to specific locations in other files. The awk code is used to... (3 Replies)
08-25-2013
