As to what pertains to the "double quoted emptyness", awk can't differentiate between empty and unset. But, neither can bash (man bash):
Also from man bash:
Quote:
... bash tests for a parameter that is unset or null; omitting the colon results in a test only for a parameter that is unset.
So to test for an unset variable, use:
Which is also standard for any POSIX-conformant shell..
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Regarding awk, it can detect set or unset array elements through the relational expression "element in array", where the element does not get created...
With regular variables, it is not so much that awk cannot detect unset variables, but rather - as a design choice - awk works such, that referencing a variable creates it first with an empty value.
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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
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
dpkg-awk
DPKG-AWK(1) General Commands Manual DPKG-AWK(1)NAME
dpkg-awk - Utility to read a dpkg style db file
SYNOPSIS
dpkg-awk [(-f|--file) filename] [(-d|--debug) ##] [(-s|--sort) list] [(-rs|--rec_sep) ??] '<fieldname>:<regex>' ... -- <out_fieldname> ..
DESCRIPTION
dpkg-awk Parses a dpkg status file (or other similarly formatted file) and outputs the resulting records. It can use regex on the field
values to limit the returned records, it can also be told which fields to output, and it can sort the matched fields.
OPTIONS -f filename
--file filename
The file to parse. The default is /var/lib/dpkg/status.
-d [#]
--debug [#]
Each time this is specified, it increased the debug level.
-s field(s)
--sort field(s)
A space or comma separated list of fields to sort on.
-n field(s)
--numeric field(s)
A space or comma separated list of fields that should be interpreted as numeric in value.
-rs ??
--rec_sep ??
Output this string at the end of each output paragraph.
-h
--help Display some help.
fieldname
The fields from the file, that are matched with the regex given. The fieldnames are case insensitive.
out_fieldname
The fields from the file, that are output for each record. If the first field listed begins with ^, then the list of fields that
follows will NOT be output.
BUGS
Be warned that the author has only a shallow understanding of the dpkg packaging system, so there are probably tons of bugs in this pro-
gram.
This program comes with no warranties. If running this program causes fire and brimstone to rain down upon the earth, you will be on your
own.
This program accesses the dpkg database directly in places, querying for data that cannot be gotten via dpkg.
AUTHOR
Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
DEBIAN Debian Utilities DPKG-AWK(1)