I am very new to awk. I have what is probably a very simple question. I'm trying to get the max value of column 1, but also print column 2. My data looks like this:
So in this case I would want it to find that 5.26 is the max and then print the entire line to look like this:
This is what I have currently, but instead of printing column 2 that is associated with the max, it prints the very last value for column2 in the file:
So, the above results in:
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!
Last edited by Franklin52; 10-08-2013 at 03:06 AM..
Reason: Please use code tags
I'm having problems since few days ago, and i'm not able to make it works with a simple awk+grep script (or other way to do this).
For example, i have a input file1.txt:
cat inputfile1.txt
218299910417
1172051195
1172070231
1172073514
1183135117
1183135118
1183135119
1281440202
... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
Ive searched the forum but with no luck...
I have a file:
ID Name Val
1 bob 45
2 joe 89
3 sue 11
4 steve 89
...
etc
I want to find a way to print... (6 Replies)
As per my understanding below mentioned line of code finding a word 'boy' in $ACULOG...
num_errors=`grep -i -e fail -e illegal -e exception -e "<E" -e boy $ACULOG | wc -l`
if I'm not corerct, please correct me. How I can find entire line like "This is a boy" with something similar as above... (1 Reply)
Dear all,
I have been trying to print an entire field, if the first line of the field is matching.
For example, my input looks something like this.
aaa ddd zzz
123 987 126
24 0.650 985
354 9864 0.32
0.333 4324 000
I am looking for a pattern,... (5 Replies)
Experts,
Here is my question.
I have got file like below
# cat file
XYZb,24,26,6
XYZc,24,26,6
XYZe,24,25,5
XYZf,23,29,5
XYZi,16,25,5
XYZj,24,26,7
XYZn,17,23,4
XYZz,23,29,5
Now, I want to print the line's Column1 whose Column 3 is the max of all.
My code is awk -F',' 'BEGIN {max... (9 Replies)
I need to find the max/min of columns 1 and 2 of a 2 column file what contains the special character ">".
I know that this will find the max value of column 1.
awk 'BEGIN {max = 0} {if ($1>max) max=$1} END {print max}' input.file
But what if I needed to ignore special characters in the... (3 Replies)
I need to find the max value of all columns except the 1st column and print the answer along with the 1st column.
Input
123xyz 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
234xyz 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
345xyz 0 0 1 0 0 0 ... (8 Replies)
so im searching the process table with:
ps -ef | awk -F"./rello.java" '{ print substr($0, index($0,$2)) }'
I only want it to print everything that's infront of the "./rello.java". That's because im basically getting the arguments that was passed to the rello.java script.
this works.
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: SkySmart
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
igawk
IGAWK(1) Utility Commands IGAWK(1)NAME
igawk - gawk with include files
SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...
DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).
AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like
@include getopt.awk
in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.
OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.
EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk
@include getopt.awk
BEGIN {
while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
...
}
EOF
igawk -f test.awk
SEE ALSO gawk(1)
Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.
AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).
Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)