1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I'm a newbie to Unix scripting and was having some problems with AWK. I have written this little script that should read a process list and then print out the PID's of the offending processes. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work! The script is as follows: ps -ef | awk '{if... (10 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

If i try the -f option for awk, i get the "awk: can't open " error message The following awk statement works fine without the -f option `awk <$RULES '/^IGNORE_POLICY / { print $2 }'` Below how i turned on debugging to show what is happening, can someone provide me with some advice!!!! ... (1 Reply)

3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

awk ' FILENAME=="First"{ arr = 1; x=sub ; } FILENAME=="Second"{ if (/^10/ &&... (5 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I do have a file (named as templist) which looks like this one: 00450000.000000 00402300.000000 00040000.000000 00020000.000000 00020000.000000 00020000.000000 00020000.000000 and I want to make a script that adds this using AWK or FOR. I tried using awk using the command but it just... (8 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Using Linux, I am trying to create a list of all the lines that have "Non-white" or "No" in column 3 of a file: ethnicity.txt. I have used the following command : awk '$3 == "No" || $3 == "Non-white" {print $1, $2, $3}' ethnicity.txt This only returns the lines with "No" and none of... (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have the following requirement. In a directory i get files from external source. I at regular intervals check that directory for any incoming files. The file name is underscore delimited. Such as: aaa_bbb_ccc_ddd_eee_fff.dat I am using awk and and splitting the file name. ... (4 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi I am writing a shell script for a number of things and aone problem that keeps comming up is AWK formatting. When commands are typed into the command line they are fine, but when executed in the script the results are pilled up and not in a list/table format. I have tried using ... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear All, I have the following awk script. #!/bin/bash sh stdev.cmd data.file | awk '{print $2}' > out.data read d < out.data echo $d awk '{print $1,$2- $f}' new > newz The script runs "stdev.cmd" and output a file "out.data" and the value of the... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

awk 'BEGIN{ if('"$CATE"'<'"${WARN}"') printf ("%s", "'"`Kfunc "" ; break`"'") else if (('"${CATE}"'>='"${WARN}"') && ('"${CATE}"'<'"${CRIT}"')) printf ("%s", "'"`Wfunc ""; break`"'") else if ('"${CATE}"'>='"${CRIT}"') printf... (6 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Ubuntu, Bash 4.3.48 Hi, I have this input file: a1:b2:c30:g4:h12:j7 and I want this output file: a1=g4:b2=h12:c30=j7 I can do it this with this code: awk -F':' '{print $1"="$4":"$2"="$5":"$3"="$6"}' INPUT > OUTPUTIn this case I have 6 columns, I calculate manually the half number of... (6 Replies)