How can i set a variable field delimiter using awk??
I wanna do something like this ,but i canīt get the correct syntaxis :
VARI=TEST
echo "0121212TESTxvcshaashd"|awk 'FS="$VARI" {print $2}'
Thanks. (2 Replies)
Hello I need some help in outputting Fields when the delimiter has changed:
echo "test1,test2 | test3,test4,test5" | awk -F"," '{print $1,"COUNT",$2,$4}'
prints out:
test1 COUNT test2 | test3 test5
But how to change the -F"," to -F"|" delimiter, so that it separates the
fields from $2... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I had posted earlier about printing fields using AWK, but now I have a slightly different problem. I have text files in the format:
1*2,3,4,5
and wish to print the first, third, and fifth fields, including the asterisk and commas. In other words, after filtering it should look... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I need an awk script to receive a variable that's an decimal value such as 009 or 031 and then convert this value to an ascii character to use as the FS (field separator for the input file).
For example,
009 should be converted to an ascii tab
031 should be converted to an ascii... (1 Reply)
Dear All,
1.txt (tab in between each value in a line)
a b c
a b c
a c d
you can see below, why with ~ i can output with tab, but = cannot?
# awk -F'\t' '$2 ~ /b/' 1
a b c
a b c
# awk -F'\t' '$2 = "b"' 1
a b c
a b c
a b d
... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I wanted to find 200th field value in delimiter file using awk.?
awk '{print $200}' inputfile
I am getting error message :-
awk: The field 200 must be in the range 0 to 199.
The source line number is 1.
The error context is
{print >>> $200 <<< }
using... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Extremely new to Perl scripting, but need a quick fix without using TEXT::CSV
I need to read in a file, pass any delimiter as an argument, and convert it to bar delimited on the output. In addition, enclose fields within double quotes in case of any embedded delimiters.
Any help would... (2 Replies)
We have a csv file as mentioned below and the requirement is to change the date format in file as mentioned below.
Current file (file.csv)
----------------------
empname,date_of_join,dept,date_of_resignation
ram,08/09/2015,sales,21/06/2016
"akash,sahu",08/10/2015,IT,21/07/2016
... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to read an Oracle listener log file line by line and need to separate the lines into several fields. The field delimiter for the line happens to be an asterisk.
I have the script below to start with but when running it, the echo command is globbing it to include other... (13 Replies)
I have file 2.txt and I want to change the delimiter form , to :
Not sure what is the problem with below command
cat 2.txt
1,a
2,b
3,d
awk 'BEGIN {FS=",";OFS=":";} {print $0}' 2.txt
Please use CODE tags as required by forum rules! (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: vamsi.valiveti
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
cut
CUT(1) General Commands Manual CUT(1)NAME
cut - select out columns of a file
SYNOPSIS
cut [ -b | -c] list [file...]
cut -f list [-d delim] [ -s]
OPTIONS -b Cut specified bytes
-c Select out specific characters
-d Change the column delimiter to delim
-f Select out specific fields that are separated by the
-i Runs of delimiters count as one
-s Suppres lines with no delimiter characters, when used
EXAMPLES
cut -f 2 file # Extract field 2
cut -c 1-2,5 file # Extract character columns 1, 2, and 5
cut -c 1-5,7- file # Extract all columns except 6
DESCRIPTION
[file...]" delimiter character ( see delim)" with the -f option. Lines with no delimiters are passwd through untouched"
Cut extracts one or more fields or columns from a file and writes them on standard output. If the -f flag is used, the fields are sepa-
rated by a delimiter character, normally a tab, but can be changed using the -d flag. If the -c flag is used, specific columns can be
specified. The list can be comma or BLANK separated. The -f and -c flags are mutually exclusive. Note: The POSIX1003.2 standard requires
the option -b to cut out specific bytes in a file. It is intended for systems with multi byte characters (e.g. kanji), since MINIX uses
only one byte characters, this option is equivalent to -c. For the same reason, the option -n has no effect and is not listed in this man-
ual page.
SEE ALSO sed(1), awk(9).
CUT(1)