Hi Guys...
I am newbie to awk and would like a solution to probably one of the simple practical questions.
I have a test file that goes as:
1,2,3,4,5,6
7,2,3,8,7,6
9,3,5,6,7,3
8,3,1,1,1,1
4,4,2,2,2,2
I would like to know how AWK can get me the distinct values say for eg: on col2... (22 Replies)
Hi.
I have a tab separated file that has a couple nearly identical lines. When doing:
sort file | uniq > file.new
It passes through the nearly identical lines because, well, they still are unique.
a)
I want to look only at field x for uniqueness and if the content in field x is the... (1 Reply)
Hello everyone,
I am writing a script to process data from the ATP world tour.
I have a file which contains:
t=540 y=2011 r=1 p=N409
t=540 y=2011 r=2 p=N409
t=540 y=2011 r=3 p=N409
t=540 y=2011 r=4 p=N409
t=520 y=2011 r=1 p=N409
t=520 y=2011 r=2 p=N409
t=520 y=2011 r=3 p=N409
The... (4 Replies)
Hi friends,
I have multiple files. For now, let's say I have two of the following style
cat 1.txt
cat 2.txt
output.txt
Please note that my files are not sorted and in the output file I need another extra column that says the file from which it is coming. I have more than 100... (19 Replies)
Hi,
Please help with this.
I have several excel files (with and .xlsx format) with 10-15 columns each.
They all have the same type of data but the columns are not ordered in the same way.
Here is a 3 column example. What I want to do add the alphabet
from column 2 to column 3, provided... (9 Replies)
I would like to print unique lines without sort or unique. Unfortunately the server I am working on does not have sort or unique. I have not been able to contact the administrator of the server to ask him to add it for several weeks. (7 Replies)
I want to expand on a question that I just asked here:
I want to extract only those values in Column 2 that are shared by at least 2 unique values in Column 2.
Using the same input (in this case 3- tab-separated columns):
waterline-n below-sheath-v 14.8097
dock-n below-sheath-v ... (2 Replies)
Hello Friends,
Hope all are doing fine.
Here is a tricky issue.
my input file is like this
07 10 14 20 21
03 15 27 30 32
01 10 11 19 30
02 06 14 15 17
01 06 20 25 29
Logic:
1. Please print another column as "0-0-0-0-0" for the first and second rows.
2. Read the first column... (4 Replies)
For some reason I am having difficulty performing what should be a fairly easy task. I would like to print lines of a file that have a unique value in the first field. For example, I have a large data-set with the following excerpt:
PS003,001 MZMWR/ L-DWD// *
PS003,001... (4 Replies)
I have a directory of files, I can show the number of lines in each file and order them from lowest to highest with:
wc -l *|sort
15263 Image.txt
16401 reference.txt
40459 richtexteditor.txt
How can I also print the number of unique lines in each file?
15263 1401 Image.txt
16401... (15 Replies)
Discussion started by: spacegoose
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.16.3 2010-06-11 SHELL-QUOTE(1)