Telling us you use awk version 3.1.5 without telling us what operating system you're using doesn't help much...
If the data in your fields isn't always less than eight characters and you want the output columns to one up (instead of just being <tab> separated), you could try something like:
which, with your latest sample input, produces the output:
If you want to try this on a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk or nawk.
To see that it still lines up column columns in the output when data has varying widths, with the input:
it produces the output:
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Have a column "address" which is combination of city, region and postal code like.
Format is : city<comma><space>region<space>postal code
abc, xyz 123456
All these three city, region and postal code are not mandatory. There can be any one of the above. In that case a nell... (2 Replies)
hey guys...
Im looking to do the following:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Change to:
1 4 7
2 5 8
3 6 9
Did use | perl -lpe'$\=$.%3?$":"\n"' , but it doesnt give me the matrix i want. (3 Replies)
Here is my source, i have million lines like this on a file.
disp0201.php?poc=4060&roc=1&ps=R&ooc=13&mjv=6&mov=5&rel=5&bod=155&oxi=2&omj=5&ozn=1&dav=20&cd=&daz=& drc=&mo=&sid=&lang=EN&loc=JPN
I want to split this into columns in order to load in database, anything starts with"&mjv=6" as first... (13 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file sample_1.txt (300k rows) which has data like below:
* Also each record is around 64k bytes
11|1|abc|102553|125589|64k bytes of data
10|2|def|123452|123356|......
13|2|geh|144351|121123|...
25|4|fgh|165250|118890|..
14|1|abc|186149|116657|......... (6 Replies)
i have file1.txt
asdas|csada|130310|0423|A1|canberra
sdasd|sfdsf|130426|2328|A1|sydney
Expected output : on eaceh third and fourth colum, split into each two characters
asdas|csada|13|03|10|04|23|A1|canberra
sdasd|sfdsf|13|04|26|23|28|A1|sydney (10 Replies)
Hi,
I have a similar input format-
A_1 2
B_0 4
A_1 1
B_2 5
A_4 1
and looking to print in this output format with headers. can you suggest in awk?awk because i am doing some pattern matching from parent file to print column 1 of my input using awk already.Thanks!
letter number_of_letters... (5 Replies)
Hello :)
I am in this situation:
Input: two tab-delimited files, `File1` and `File2`. `File2` (`$2`) has to be parsed by patterns found in `File1` (`$1`).
Expected output: tab-delimited file, `File3`. `File3` has to contain the same rows as `File2`, plus the corresponding value in... (5 Replies)
Hi all,
Newbie here, so please bear over with my stupid question :)
I have used far too long time today on figuring this out, so I hope that someone here can help me move on.
I have some annotation data for a transcriptome where I want to split a column containing NCBI accession IDs into a... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to split the following output into two columns, where each column has Source: Destination:
OUTPUT TO FILTER
$ tshark -r Capture_without_mtr.pcap -V | awk '/ (Source|Destination): /' | more
Source: x.x.x.x
Destination: x.x.x.x
Source:... (2 Replies)