1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I posted something here about this yesterday but I can't seem to find it. I needed help writting a script which would append a file with new lines after every so many charachters. Example: (my original flat file) L60 LETTER OF CREDIT 60 DAYS W00 ON RECEIPT WIRE TRANSFER W30 NET... (12 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, How can i use the below unix command in AWK . Can any one please suggest me how i can use. sed -e "s/which first.sh/which \$0/g" $shell > $shell.sal where $0=current program name(say current.sh) $shell=second.sh (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, How can i store a value of the unix command executed in AWK with system command. devise=`cut -c1-3 dvgp.txt` I wrote this command in awk as awk'{ code= sprintf("devise=`cut -c1-3 dvgp.txt`"); system(code); }' Is this correct. can you please suggest me how the code can be... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi there every body I'm new to shell scripting and there is a problem facing me,, please look at the following piece of code: awk ' BEGIN{ FS="<assertion id=\1"; RS="<assertion id=\"2"}/<assertion id=\"1/{print FS$2 > "/home/ds2/test/output.txt"} ' filename all I wanna do is to... (6 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Actually I got a list of file end with *.txt I want to use the same command apply to all the *.txt Thus I try to find out the fastest way to write those same command in a script and then want to let them run automatics. For example: I got the file below: file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt... (4 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have many problems with a script. I have a script that formats a text file but always prints the same error when i try to execute it The code is that: { if (NF==17){ print $0 }else{ fields=NF; all=$0; while... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Find the number of files with sizes > 100KB in /, /bin, /usr, /usr/bin and /usr/sbin directories and output them in a two column format with the name of the directory and the number of files. i tried with awk $>ls -lh | awk '/^-/ && $5 >= 100k {print $8 $5}' but it is not working pls tell... (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I thought I had solved this problem but after testing the script I came to realize that it is not doing what I need. So, here it goes again. This is the code: awk '/\>/{F=$2; N=$3; split(FILENAME, A, "."); getline; x = ">"}{print ">" A"-" x++" "F" " N"\n" $0}' This is the input file: ... (5 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

i have a datafile that has several lines that look like this: 2,dataflow,Sun Mar 17 16:50:01 2013,1363539001,2990,excelsheet,660,mortar,660,4 using the following command: awk -F, '{$3=strftime("%a %b %d %T %Y,%s",$3)}1' OFS=, $DATAFILE | egrep -v "\-OLDISSUES," | ${AWK} "/${MONTH} ${DAY}... (7 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

i have an email list in file.txt with comma separated line1 - FIELD1,pippo@gmail.com,darth@gmail.com line2 - FIELD2,pippo@gmail.com,darth@gmail.com,sampei@gmail.com output=(awk -F ',' -v var="$awkvar" '$1==var {print $2,$3,$4}' spreadsheet.txt)but awk delete some letters at the... (8 Replies)