Isnt this a simple case of else if ? Loop would be better of course if i runs from 1 to 13, but for checking specific columns it may be better to use else if .
Yes, if...
If we knew what was really wanted we could all make better suggestions. When we're just given a pattern of three consecutive fields being checked and a statement that 13 fields will be checked, we have to guess at what should be done. With consecutive fields, a loop is probably better; with non-consecutive fields an if-else ladder or a loop over an array listing the fields to be tested will be needed. If the 13 field numbers are fixed but not consecutive, an if-else ladder will be faster. If the fields to be tested vary from invocation to invocation, creating an array of fields to be evaluated is a lot easier to set up the code in a BEGIN clause from command line or file input than rewriting an if-else ladder on the fly.
That is why threads are much shorter and suggestions are much better and usually arrive quicker when the requirements are carefully and clearly specified in the 1st post in a thread.
Hello,
Can you explain why in the first 2 commands the awk does not print anything? Is it looking of a specific format ?
Thanks.
$ echo 12a3 | awk '($1>=2) {print $1}' # prints nothing
$ echo 123a | awk '($1>=2) {print $1}' # prints nothing
$ echo a123 | awk '($1>=2) {print $1}'
a123... (1 Reply)
I do not know how to do this unless I use a bunch of if statements. I need a script to replace numbers in each record in a file. I am really getting tangled in this web.
If a fieldA (19 positions) is greater than 14 digits, I have to change the data (resulting fieldA is fixed 19 postions).
If... (5 Replies)
how can i specify more than 1 consition in the following AWK statament??
i.e. if $2 is ABCD and $3 is MNOP and $4 is KLPM
similarly for OR
#!/bin/ksh
awk -F '' ' $2 == "ABCD" { print $2, $3;}' file.xml (2 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
# cat 1
1;2;3;4;5;6
1;2;3;4;5;
# awk -F ";" '$5 == "5"' 1
1;2;3;4;5;6
1;2;3;4;5;
but the output is should be just "1;2;3;4;5;6" means 1st condition: $5 is 5; 2nd condition: $6 is not empty, please advice. Thanks (2 Replies)
Hi there,
I wanna define a variable 'tempbase'. Therefore I read a text file "base.out". "base.out" contains a list with four columns. 'tempbase' is the 4th entry in the line, where the first entry is equal to the predefined variable $orb1 and the second entry is equal to $orb2. I wrote the code... (2 Replies)
Hi there, here is my command
ssh host.local "/path/to/my/perscript/hostconfig.pl -s $HOST -d |awk '{if (\$4 > 120)print \"My error message\";exit}{s=0; for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) s++; if(s == 13) print \$3}'"
The problem is if conditional 1 is met (i.e $4 > 120), i don't see "My error message", the... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file with below contents.
"en2"/10.185.81.0:cluster_interconnect,"en5"/10.185.81.0:cluster_interconnect,"en6"/169.181.146.0:public
I want to take the interface name from the file and convert it as ipaddress using ifconfig command get the output like below
en6 ->... (2 Replies)
I'm having a problem pulling UID's from data. The data outputs a user's UID in one of three ways:
1. Error User user_name already assigned with <UID>
2. Success <UID> reserved for user_name
3. <a load of crap because there was a db failure yet somehow the UID is still in there>
I typically... (5 Replies)
Hello Friends,
I need to find some CDRs in production servers whose 1st field value and 2nd field value = 1 and 11th looks like 45.123... where there are more than 3 digits after comma.so i wrote a one liner, something like below but does not work, however when i used first and second conditions... (8 Replies)
tar(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual tar(4)NAME
tar - format of tar tape archive
DESCRIPTION
The header structure produced by (see tar(1)) is as follows (the array size defined by the constants is shown on the right):
All characters are represented in ASCII. There is no padding used in the header block; all fields are contiguous.
The fields magic, uname, and gname are null-terminated character strings. The fields name, linkname, and prefix are null-terminated char-
acter strings except when all characters in the array contain non-null characters, including the last character. The version field is two
bytes containing the characters (zero-zero). The typeflag contains a single character. All other fields are leading-zero-filled octal
numbers in ASCII. Each numeric field is terminated by one or more space or null characters.
The name and the prefix fields produce the pathname of the file. The hierarchical relationship of the file is retained by specifying the
pathname as a path prefix, with a slash character and filename as the suffix. If the prefix contains non-null characters, prefix, a slash
character, and name are concatenated without modification or addition of new characters to produce a new pathname. In this manner, path-
names of at most 256 characters can be supported. If a pathname does not fit in the space provided, the format-creating utility notifies
the user of the error, and no attempt is made to store any part of the file, header, or data on the medium.
SEE ALSO tar(1)STANDARDS CONFORMANCE tar(4)