1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Currently I am coding up a nasty way of reading file input using *cat* rather than *read*. My text input looks like TextA 100 TextB 110 TextC 120 Currently I am using cat |while read line to read the first column and second column fields. cat foo.txt|while read line do ... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have two files file1: abc,def,ghi,5,jkl,mno pqr,stu,ghi,10,vwx,xyz cba,ust,ihg,4,cdu,oqw file2: ravi,def,kishore ramu,ust,krishna joseph,stu,mike I need two output file as follows If field3 in file1 is same as field3 in the next line then the field4 should add... (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have a file with two fields. The first field repeats itself for quite a while but the second field changes. What I want to do is to go through the first column until its value changes (and while it doesn't, verify that the second field is in a sequence from 0-15). Example input: ... (13 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Friends, I am new to Shell Scripting and need your help in the below situation. - I have two files (File 1 and File 2) and the contents of the files are mentioned below. - "Application handle" is the common field in both the files. (NOTE :- PLEASE REFER TO THE ATTACHMENT "Compare files... (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi I have 2 files as below File 1 Chr Start End chr1 120 130 chr1 140 150 chr2 130 140 File2 Chr Start End Value chr1 121 128 ABC chr1 144 149 XYZ chr2 120 129 PQR I would like to compare these files using awk; specifically if column 1 of file1 is equal to column 1 of file2... (7 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I am looking for an awk script to do the following Join the fields together only if the first 4 fields are same. Can it be done with join function in awk?? a,b,c,d,8,,, a,b,c,d,,7,, a,b,c,d,,,9, a,b,p,e,8,,, a.b,p,e,,9,, a,b,p,z,,,,9 a,b,p,z,,8,, desired output: ... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I am new to using awk and am quickly discovering what a powerful pattern-recognition tool it is. However, I have what seems like a fairly basic task that I just can't figure out how to perform in one line. I want awk to find and print all the lines in which one of multiple patterns (e.g.... (8 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a fileA with one column (1000 rows), and fileB with 26 columns(13000 rows). I need to search each value of fileA with fileB and return all the 26 values from FileB to a new file- File C if matches. The search value (from FileA) may present in any of the 26 values in FileB. This value is not... (7 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys, I have problem to append new data at the end of each line of the files where it takes whole value of the nth column. My expected result i just want to take a specific value only. This new data is based on substring of 11th, 12th 13th column that has comma seperated value. My code: awk... (4 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi, I'm struggling with a problem at the minute. Basically, I have a file with >1000 columns / fields (with headers), each containing a variable number of values. I would like to stack each column such that all the data appears in a single column, e.g. the first value of column 2 is moved to... (5 Replies)