My apologies if any confusion caused!
I should be more specific with my examples. My input format always starts with char/string and followed by numbers of different length. So my original example starts with single char, which is
expected output is:
and second example starts with string:
output is: The printf utility (or awk printf function) is not able to determine where digits are in an alphanumeric string. This clarified my question, anyway.
Yoda's answer seems to be the first choice for me, so that I can strip the leading char(s) then handle the rest digits with printf format identifier.
Thanks a lot again!
Hi Folks!
Can you help me with this find -printf command. I seem to be unable to execute the printf-command from my shell script. I'm confused: :confused:
My shell script snippet looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
..
COMMAND="find ./* -printf '%p %m %s %u %g \n'"
echo "Command: ${COMMAND}"... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
My simple AWK code does C = A - B
If C can be a negative number, how awk printf formating handles it using string format specifier.
Thanks in advance
Kanu
:confused: (9 Replies)
I am trying to use printf with a character string that is used within a do loop. The problem is that while in the loop, the printf prints the variable name instead of the value. The do loop calls the variable name from a text file (called device.txt):
while read device
do
cat $device.clean... (2 Replies)
Hi I'm having a problem with converting a file:
ID X
1 7
1 8
1 3
2 5
2 7
2 2
To something like this:
ID X1 X2 X3
1 7 8 3
2 5 7 2
I've tried the following loop:
for i in `cat tst.csv| awk -F "," '{print $1}'| uniq`;do grep -h $i... (4 Replies)
hi all
can any one help me to understand this
bdf -t vfxs | awk '/\//{printf("%-30s%-10s%-10s%-10s%-5s%-10s\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6)}'
i want to understand the numbers %-30S% (4 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I am trying to insert lines of the below format in a file:
# x3a4914 Joe 2010/04/07
# seh Lane 2010/04/07
# IN01379 Larry 2010/04/07
I am formatting the strings as follows using awk printf:
awk 'printf "# %s %9s %18s\n", $2,$3,$4}'
... (2 Replies)
I want to print a string say "str1 str2 str3 str4" using printf.
If I try printing it using printf it is printing as follows.
output
-------
str1
str2
str3
str4
btw I'm working in AIX.
This is my first post in this forum :)
regards,
rakesh (4 Replies)
Hi Experts,
Quick question:
I am trying to get the output with decimal and floating point but not working:
echo "20.03" | awk '{printf "%03d.2f\n" , $0 }'
020.2f
How to get the output as :
020.03
Thank you. (4 Replies)
Hi All
I am working to process txt file into csv commo separated.
Input.txt
1,2,asdf,34sdsd,120,haahha2
2,2,wewedf,45sdsd,130,haahha
.....
....
Errorcode.txt
120
130
140
myawk.awk code:
{
BEGIN{
HEADER="f1,f2,f3,f4,f5,f6" (4 Replies)
Hello,
I am looking for a method to use in my bash script which allows me to use long strings with all special characters.
I have found that printf method could be helpful for me but unfortunately, when I trying
root@machine:~# tevar=`printf "%s%c"... (2 Replies)