Tricky part is that commas may be present within the field (that's why the quotes)
Yoda's solution will not work for files that have more than 6 columns, or files that have commas in the last two fields. E.g. file
will become
Probably not what you want.
I would suggest the following approach:
1. protect the comma within quotes by substituting it with some character
2. get rid of the 4th field
3. substitute the protect character with comma to get back the original
Hi
Can anyone what I am doing wrong while using cut command.
for f in *.log
do
logfilename=$f
Log "Log file Name: $logfilename"
logfile1=`basename $logfilename .log`
flength=${#logfile1}
Log "file length $flength"
from_length=$(($flength - 15))
Log "from... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need a help with cut/awk command. I need to get certain values from a string provided. For example: i have a config file with below mentioned details
oracle="user=name"/"pass/word"@databasename.
I have used a command var1=`grep -w oracle sample.cfg | cut -d"=" -f2 | cut -d"/" -f1`.
... (10 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I have a file1
i want to retrieve only the fields which have DEP,CITY,TRANS as headers in other file.
Output:
I want to give the input as DEP,CITY,TRANS column names to get the output.
i used cut command .. but if i have 300 fileds it is more difficult to... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have to display the value 16 present in "lcpu=16" which is the output of a command
# vmstat
System configuration: lcpu=16 mem=4096MB
I used as
# hdtype=`vmstat | grep "lcpu" | awk -F "=" '{print $2}'`
# echo $hdtype
16 mem
But I need to display only 16..
Am doing... (3 Replies)
hay
i am trying to get JUST the PID from the ps command.
my command line is:
ps -ef | grep "mintty" | cut -d' ' -f2
but i get an empty line. i assume that the delimiter is not just one space character, but can't figure out what should i do in order to do that.
i know i can use awk or cut... (8 Replies)
Hi,
My aim is to get the md5 hash of a file and store it in a variable.
var1="md5sum file1"
$var1
The above outputs fine but also contains the filename, so somthing like this 243ASsf25 file1
i just need to get the first part and put it into a variable.
var1="md5sum file1"... (5 Replies)
I'm a complete beginner in UNIX (and not a computer science student either), just undergoing a tutoring course. Trying to replicate the instructions on my own I directed output of the ls listing command (lists all files of my home directory ) to My_dir.tsv file (see the screenshot) to make use of... (9 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
I have a very simple problem and i am stuck in that from last 8 days. I tried many attempts, googled my query but all in vain.
I have a text file named "test.txt"
In that suppose i have contents like:
Java:
1 Object oriented programming language
2 Concepts of Abstraction... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I would like use the output of my cut command as a variable in my following awk command. Here's what I've written.
cut -f1 info.txt | awk -v i=xargs -F'' '{if($6 == $i) print $20}' summary.txt
Where obviously the 'xargs' doesn't do what I want. How can I pass my cut result to my awk... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT X11R4
regex
regex(1F) FMLI Commands regex(1F)NAME
regex - match patterns against a string
SYNOPSIS
regex [-e] [ -v "string"] [ pattern template] ... pattern [template]
DESCRIPTION
The regex command takes a string from the standard input, and a list of pattern / template pairs, and runs regex() to compare the string
against each pattern until there is a match. When a match occurs, regex writes the corresponding template to the standard output and
returns TRUE. The last (or only) pattern does not need a template. If that is the pattern that matches the string, the function simply
returns TRUE. If no match is found, regex returns FALSE.
The argument pattern is a regular expression of the form described in regex(). In most cases, pattern should be enclosed in single quotes
to turn off special meanings of characters. Note that only the final pattern in the list may lack a template.
The argument template may contain the strings $m0 through $m9, which will be expanded to the part of pattern enclosed in ( ... )$0 through
( ... )$9 constructs (see examples below). Note that if you use this feature, you must be sure to enclose template in single quotes so
that FMLI does not expand $m0 through $m9 at parse time. This feature gives regex much of the power of cut(1), paste(1), and grep(1), and
some of the capabilities of sed(1). If there is no template, the default is $m0$m1$m2$m3$m4$m5$m6$m7$m8$m9.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-e Evaluates the corresponding template and writes the result to the standard output.
-v "string" Uses string instead of the standard input to match against patterns.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Cutting letters out of a string
To cut the 4th through 8th letters out of a string (this example will output strin and return TRUE):
`regex -v "my string is nice" '^.{3}(.{5})$0' '$m0'`
Example 2: Validating input in a form
In a form, to validate input to field 5 as an integer:
valid=`regex -v "$F5" '^[0-9]+$'`
Example 3: Translating an environment variable in a form
In a form, to translate an environment variable which contains one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 to the letters a, b, c, d, e:
value=`regex -v "$VAR1" 1 a 2 b 3 c 4 d 5 e '.*' 'Error'`
Note the use of the pattern '.*' to mean "anything else".
Example 4: Using backquoted expressions
In the example below, all three lines constitute a single backquoted expression. This expression, by itself, could be put in a menu defini-
tion file. Since backquoted expressions are expanded as they are parsed, and output from a backquoted expression (the cat command, in this
example) becomes part of the definition file being parsed, this expression would read /etc/passwd and make a dynamic menu of all the login
ids on the system.
`cat /etc/passwd | regex '^([^:]*)$0.*$' '
name=$m0
action=`message "$m0 is a user"`'`
DIAGNOSTICS
If none of the patterns match, regex returns FALSE, otherwise TRUE.
NOTES
Patterns and templates must often be enclosed in single quotes to turn off the special meanings of characters. Especially if you use the
$m0 through $m9 variables in the template, since FMLI will expand the variables (usually to "") before regex even sees them.
Single characters in character classes (inside []) must be listed before character ranges, otherwise they will not be recognized. For exam-
ple, [a-zA-Z_/] will not find underscores (_) or slashes (/), but [_/a-zA-Z] will.
The regular expressions accepted by regcmp differ slightly from other utilities (that is, sed, grep, awk, ed, and so forth).
regex with the -e option forces subsequent commands to be ignored. In other words, if a backquoted statement appears as follows:
`regex -e ...; command1; command2`
command1 and command2 would never be executed. However, dividing the expression into two:
`regex -e ...``command1; command2`
would yield the desired result.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO awk(1), cut(1), grep(1), paste(1), sed(1), regcmp(3C), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 12 Jul 1999 regex(1F)