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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Desired output.txt for reading txt file using awk? Post 302934365 by emily on Friday 6th of February 2015 10:48:31 AM
Old 02-06-2015
Desired output.txt for reading txt file using awk?
Dear all,
I have a huge txt file (DATA.txt) with the following content [1]. From this txt file, I want the following output [2] using some shell script.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Greetings,
emily


[1] DATA.txt (snippet of the huge text file)
Code:
      407202849 /abcd/directory/sub_directory/Samsung/150206_135953/0000/L1ITMBLT_54.root
      407077407 /abcd/directory/sub_directory/Samsung/150206_135953/0000/L1ITMBLT_93.root
      407018097 /abcd/directory/sub_directory/Samsung/150206_135953/0000/L1ITMBLT_74.root
      406859364 /abcd/directory/sub_directory/Samsung/150206_135953/0000/L1ITMBLT_171.root
      406739941 /abcd/directory/sub_directory/Samsung/150206_135953/0000/L1ITMBLT_112.root
      407261262 /abcd/directory/sub_directory/Samsung/150206_135953/0000/L1ITMBLT_107.root
      407080550 /abcd/directory/sub_directory/Samsung/150206_135953/0000/L1ITMBLT_18.root

[2] Output
Code:
     infile=['/abcd/directory/sub_directory/Samsung/150206_135953/0000/L1ITMBLT_54.root']
      infile.append('/abcd/directory/sub_directory/Samsung/150206_135953/0000/L1ITMBLT_93.root')
      infile.append('/abcd/directory/sub_directory/Samsung/150206_135953/0000/L1ITMBLT_74.root')
      infile.append('/abcd/directory/sub_directory/Samsung/150206_135953/0000/L1ITMBLT_171.root')
      infile.append('/abcd/directory/sub_directory/Samsung/150206_135953/0000/L1ITMBLT_112.root')
      infile.append('/abcd/directory/sub_directory/Samsung/150206_135953/0000/L1ITMBLT_107.root')
      infile.append('/abcd/directory/sub_directory/Samsung/150206_135953/0000/L1ITMBLT_18.root')

 

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