I think your main impediment is you need to know how awk script work:
Every awk-script consists of three parts (although each part is optional): the first part is marked with BEGIN and is executed before the first line of the input is read. The second part is not marked with a name and is executed every time a line of input is read. The last part is named END and is executed after the last line of input is read.
For instance:
This will print the input file unaltered (the single "print" command in the middle does that), surrounded by "Here we start" at the top (the effect of the BEGIN clause) and "Here it ends" at the bottom (the effect of the END clause).
Your original script printed "no duplicates" several times because the process - deciding upon printing it or not, then printing it eventually - was done for every line over and over. Dons script worked because he put that into the END-part and just manipulated a flag without printing anything in the main part.
You should be able with this to change his script into doing whatever you want it to do.
hi there
I'm getting a string from a sqlplus query, and I need to compare it with another string
Problem here, is that the string i get from query brings a 'carriage return' with it, and comparing throws always false value.
i need to delete all carriage retun charactres in string.
how... (6 Replies)
Hi friends
I need to return string value in functions
can anyone help me out to return string values rather than integer.
#!/bin/bash
add_a_user()
{
USER=$1
COMPANY=$2
shift; shift;
echo "Adding user $USER ..."
echo "$USER working in $COMPANY ..."
ret_type=YES
return... (1 Reply)
Hi there
i have a script which will create unix user accounts. Id like to validate the entered string so that it is specifically 8 characters or less and consists of only ! not
Is there a way to validate a string against a regular expression.. i.e
size=`printf "$var | wc -m`
... (1 Reply)
I have a folder of scripts:
bash:/folderpath/> ls
beginFile.sh
beginFileBackup.sh
beginAnother.sh
beginAnotherBackup.sh
beginJunk.sh
beginJunkBackup.sh
I'd like to be able to call just one (beginFile.sh) using this type of scheme:
#Run the beginFile script without the word "Backup" in... (1 Reply)
function blah {
return "string"
}
it keeps saying string: not found
How can i do this guys? Because I'm trying to do something like this
function print_daemon_options {
echo "Start Daemons - Please enter one or a combination of the following:"
if isDatasubEnabled &&... (11 Replies)
Gurus,
I have a files from where lines are like following
<ns0:ccid>123456789</ns0:ccid>
<ns0:ccid>1234
56789</ns0:ccid>
I would like to grep any number which will be as below (with carrige return): As 123456789 any number so I have to use the regular expression
<ns0:ccid>1234... (3 Replies)
Hello,
Awk seem treat the pattern as regular expression, how can awk search not using regular expression? e.g. just represent for "", not "A" or "a" . I don't want to add backslash . (2 Replies)
here is what i want to achieve... consider a file contains below contents. the file size is large about 60mb
cat dump.sql
INSERT INTO `table1` (`id`, `action`, `date`, `descrip`, `lastModified`) VALUES (1,'Change','2011-05-05 00:00:00','Account Updated','2012-02-10... (10 Replies)
Hi,
temp="/usr=25,/usr/lib=12"
How to get only dir names with out values.
I tried like below but no use.
tmp=${temp##*,}
echo $tmp
o/p:
/usr/lib=12
expected o/p:
/usr /usr/lib ---> in array (13 Replies)
Hi,
I am writing a script in awk trying to replace strings that are math expressions with their result.
For example, I have a file that looks like this:
5-1
32/8-1
4*12
17+1-3
I would like to get the following output:
4
3
48
15
I tried doing it the following way (using the "bc"... (8 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
paps
PAPS(1) General Commands Manual PAPS(1)NAME
paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango
SYNOPSIS
paps [options] files...
DESCRIPTION
paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves
through the pango ft2 backend.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is
included below.
--landscape
Landscape output. Default is portrait.
--columns=cl
Number of columns output. Default is 1.
Please notice this option isn't related to the terminal length as in a "80 culums terminal".
--font=desc
Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12.
--rtl Do right to left (RTL) layout.
--paper ps
Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter and A4. Default is A4.
Postscript points
Each postscript point equals to 1/72 of an inch. 36 points are 1/2 of an inch.
--bottom-margin=bm
Set bottom margin. Default is 36 postscript points.
--top-margin=tm
Set top margin. Default is 36 postscript points.
--left-margin=lm
Set left margin. Default is 36 postscript points.
--right-margin=rm
Set right margin. Default is 36 postscript points.
--gutter-width=gw
Set gutter width. Default is 40 postscript points.
--help Show summary of options.
--header
Draw page header for each page.
--markup
Interpret the text as pango markup.
--lpi Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing.
--cpi Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size.
--stretch-chars
Indicates that characters should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops
behaviour.
AUTHOR
paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>.
This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
April 17, 2006 PAPS(1)