I thought the meaning of $1 was pretty unambiguous in AWK.
Here is a little more context:
Trying to do the assignment and default in a single command if possible (possibly analagous to parameter substitution in BASH, if such a thing exists in AWK).
Mike
Last edited by Michael Stora; 05-01-2015 at 02:32 AM..
for the command below, it looks for the 3rd field value matching "P" and printing it.
awk '{if ($3 == "P") print}' file
how would i express this if i use a loop to find more that 1 variable fro a list? this doesn't seem to work...
cat list | while read n
do
awk '{if ($3 == "$n") print}'... (1 Reply)
guys,
I'm trying to 9k lines of the following:
aaa aaa 1 1 1
to
aaa aaa 1 01 1
Im pretty ignorant when it comes to subtituting fields using awk
any help ?
Tony (1 Reply)
I need to copy field 2 to field 3 for only those records that have the 1st field equal to account
e.g. file
account|123|789|xxx|yyy|zzz|...
account_group|444|555|xxx|yy|zz|....
account|456|901|aaa|bbb|ccc|.....
after running awk script should look like
account|123|123|xxx|yyy|zzz|...... (4 Replies)
Hi again.
A have a CSV-file in the following format:
2008.09.01,15:17:42,9227096485,9233175320,CTC10,SMS,0901151742098314,Target_MSIS
DN_is_blacklisted
I want to have an awk command that will say:
If the first 3 digits of $4 does not begin with 922 or 923, then make $8 say "Invalid... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I have a file containing lines such as:
(1 104 (16) (17) (18) (102))$
(1 105 (16) (17) (19:21) (102))$
I would like to extract the numbers, only by using awk (or gawk).
I do not want to use "sed" as it is very slow.
For now my solution consists in... (2 Replies)
Hello,
in my .bashrc I tried to setup some aliases.
alias scp_cmd="scp -P 8888 $1 me@somehost:."
is supposed to copy a local file to somehost via scp. However it seems that the command line substitution does not work here. However this works:
alias lst="ls -l $1"
The above scp command can... (1 Reply)
I am trying to use AWK to replace dallinux02 to dallinux03 everywhere in the servers.txt file and move it over to "awk2".
Here is my script "awk2.awk":
gsub(/dallinux02/, "dallinux03"); print > "awk2"
I am trying to run this using the following:
$ awk -f awk2.awk... (3 Replies)
Hi experts
I want to use the parameter substitution in the bash with ## to get
a=mfs1000 (not the "mfs" maybe other string and the length is not the same"
I want to get
1000
any help? I don't know use which pattern
I use
echo ${a##*}
It doesn't work
Lei (5 Replies)
Hi all,
I need some help with substitution in awk.
Is it possible to substitute field from awk output with string from file?
For example:
zcat /SMS/CDR/cdr_TC/callLogs*_*_2013092710*.gz | sed 's/:/;/g' | awk -F";" '{if($2==1 && $10~/389123456789/) print $36";"$37}'
2;19733248
I want... (6 Replies)
I am trying add a prefix variable(string) to command output.
sed parameter substitution is not working.
- I have found some issues on my end of testing,, please delete this thread for now. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: kchinnam
1 Replies
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tzselect
TZSELECT(8) System Manager's Manual TZSELECT(8)NAME
tzselect - select a time zone
SYNOPSIS
tzselect
DESCRIPTION
The tzselect program asks the user for information about the current location, and outputs the resulting time zone description to standard
output. The output is suitable as a value for the TZ environment variable.
All interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard error.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
AWK Name of a Posix-compliant awk program (default: awk).
TZDIR Name of the directory containing time zone data files (default: /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo).
FILES
TZDIR/iso3166.tab
Table of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names.
TZDIR/zone.tab
Table of country codes, latitude and longitude, TZ values, and descriptive comments.
TZDIR/TZ
Time zone data file for time zone TZ.
EXIT STATUS
The exit status is zero if a time zone was successfully obtained from the user, nonzero otherwise.
SEE ALSO newctime(3), tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)TZSELECT(8)