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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Use string as Record separator in awk Post 302947638 by Scrutinizer on Friday 19th of June 2015 05:10:14 PM
Old 06-19-2015
It depends on your version of awk. Regular awk can only use a single character as RS . GNU awk and mawk can use a regular expression..

For example:
Code:
$ gawk 'BEGIN{ORS=""; RS="No.     Time[^\n]*\n"} NR==2'  file
     28 2015-06-18 12:12:05.727772000 001822                  780568                  XXXXX  198    XXXXX

Frame 28: 198 bytes on wire (1584 bits), 198 bytes captured (1584 bits) on interface 0
    Interface id: 0 (\Device\NPF_{28086D60-7061-4ADD-B9})
    Encapsulation type: Ethernet (1)


--

( I inserted the -- manually otherwise the empty lines will not print, they are not there ins the actual output )




--
Alternative way of writing it:
Code:
gawk 'NR==2' RS="No.     Time[^\n]*\n" ORS= file


Last edited by Scrutinizer; 06-19-2015 at 06:17 PM..
 

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DBF_DUMP(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					      DBF_DUMP(1p)

NAME
dbf_dump - Dump the record of the dbf file FORMAT
dbf_dump [options] files where options are --rs output record separator (default newline) --fs output field separator (default colon) --fields comma separated list of fields to print (default all) --undef string to print for NULL values (default empty) --memofile specifies unstandard name of attached memo file --memosep separator for dBase III dbt's (default x1ax1a) --nomemo do not try to read the memo (dbt/fpt) file --info print info about the file and fields with additional --SQL parameter, outputs the SQL create table --version print version of the XBase library --table output in nice table format (only available when Data::ShowTable is installed, overrides rs and fs) SYNOPSIS
dbf_dump -fields id,msg table.dbf dbf_dump -fs=' : ' table dbf_dump --nomemo file.dbf ssh user@host 'cat file.dbf.gz' | gunzip - | dbf_dump - DESCRIPTION
Dbf_dump prints to standard output the content of dbf files listed. By default, it prints all fields, separated by colons, one record on a line. The output record and column separators can be changed by switches on the command line. You can also ask only for some fields to be printed. The content of associated memo files (dbf, fpt) is printed for memo fields, unless you use the "--nomemo" option. You can specify reading the standard input by putting dash (-) instead of file name. AVAILABLE FROM
http://www.adelton.com/perl/DBD-XBase/ AUTHOR
(c) 1998--2011 Jan Pazdziora. SEE ALSO
perl(1); XBase(3pm); index_dump(1p) perl v5.12.4 2011-08-31 DBF_DUMP(1p)
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