I'm sorry, but we can't ignore syntax issues. If you can't accurately show us what your code really looks like, we can waste our time and yours pointing out reasons why you code won't work when it has nothing to do with your problem. Our crystal balls don't work well enough to read code that you haven't shown us.
I haven't tried to work out the logic of what your awk code is doing, but there are two obvious problems with what you have shown us:
First, just like the BEGIN keyword is all uppercase, the end in your code needs to be END.
And, second, the awk utility reads from standard input when no file operands are specified on the command line and when - is specified as a file operand. So try changing the last line of your script from:
to:
so awk will see two file operands instead of being given your first file on standard input and you second file as the only file operand.
If these changes don't fix your problem, please show us what happens after making these changes and we'll help you debug it further. And, please find a way to show us your actual code (either copy & paste or upload).
And, DO NOT show us expected output that is not your expected output. If we can't tell what was done to make it readable instead of being the actual output you expect, you are just adding confusion to your specification.
I have a 500 MB XML file from a FileMaker database export, it's formatted horribly (no line breaks at all). The node structure is basically
<FMPXMLRESULT>
<METADATA>
<FIELD att="............." id="..."/>
</METADATA>
<RESULTSET FOUND="1763457">
<ROW att="....." etc="....">
... (16 Replies)
Hi,
I'm using AWK to try to extract data from multiple files (*.txt). The script should look for a flag that occurs at a specific position in each file and it should return the data to the right of that flag.
I should end up with one line for each file, each containing 3 columns:... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I'd like to process multiple files. For example:
file1.txt
file2.txt
file3.txt
Each file contains several lines of data. I want to extract a piece of data and output it to a new file.
file1.txt ----> newfile1.txt
file2.txt ----> newfile2.txt
file3.txt ----> newfile3.txt
Here is... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a directory full of *.txt files. I would like to print the last line of every file to screen.
I know you can use FNR for printing the first line of each file, but how do I access the last line of each file?
This code doesn't work, it only prints the last line of the last file:BEGIN... (5 Replies)
I have a file with data records separated by multiple equals signs, as below.
==========
RECORD 1
==========
RECORD 2
DATA LINE
==========
RECORD 3
==========
RECORD 4
DATA LINE
==========
RECORD 5
DATA LINE
==========
I need to filter out all data from this file where the... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a problem where I need to make this input:
nameRow1a,text1a,text2a,floatValue1a,FloatValue2a,...,floatValue140a
nameRow1b,text1b,text2b,floatValue1b,FloatValue2b,...,floatValue140b
look like this output:
nameRow1a,text1b,text2a,(floatValue1a - floatValue1b),(floatValue2a -... (4 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I have a data with multiple entry , I want to filter PKG= & the last column "00060110" or "00088150" in the output
file:
###############################################################################################
PKG= P8SDB :: VGS = vgP8SOra vgP8SDB1 vgP8S001... (5 Replies)
Greetings Experts,
I need to handle the views created over monthly retention tables
for which every new table in YYYYMMDD format, there is
equivalent view created and the older table which might be
dropped, the view over it has to be re-created over a dummy
table so that it doesn't fail.... (2 Replies)
Greetings Experts,
As part of automating the sql generation, I have the source table name, target table name, join condition stored in a file join_conditions.txt which is a delimited file (I can edit the file if for any reason). The reason I needed to store is I have built SELECT list without... (5 Replies)
We have the data looks like below in a log file.
I want to generat files based on the string between two hash(#) symbol like below
Source:
#ext1#test1.tale2 drop
#ext1#test11.tale21 drop
#ext1#test123.tale21 drop
#ext2#test1.tale21 drop
#ext2#test12.tale21 drop
#ext3#test11.tale21 drop... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Sanjeev G
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
rlam
RLAM(1) General Commands Manual RLAM(1)NAME
rlam - laminate records from multiple files
SYNOPSIS
rlam [ -tS ][ -u ][ -iaN | -ifN | -idN | -iiN | -iwN | -ibN ] input1 input2 ..
DESCRIPTION
Rlam simply joins records (or lines) from multiple inputs, separating them with the given string (TAB by default). Different separators
may be given for different files by specifying additional -t options in between each file name. Note that there is no space between this
option and its argument. If none of the input files uses an ASCII separator, then no end-of-line character will be printed, either.
An input is either a stream or a command. Commands are given in quotes, and begin with an exclamantion point ('!'). If the inputs do not
have the same number of lines, then shorter files will stop contributing to the output as they run out.
The -ia option may be used to specify ASCII input (the default), or the -if option may be used to indicated binary IEEE 32-bit floats on
input. Similarly, the -id and -ii options may be used to indicate binary 64-bit doubles or integer words, respectively. The -iw option
specifies 2-byte short words, and the -ib option specifies bytes. If a number is immediately follows any of these options, then it indi-
cates that multiple such values are expected for each record. For example, -if3 indicates three floats per input record for the next named
input. In the case of the -ia option, no number indicates one line per input record, and numbers greater than zero indicate that many
characters exactly per record. For binary input formts, no number implies one value per record. For anything other than EOL-separated
input, the default tab separator is reset to the empty string.
A hyphen ('-') by itself can be used to indicate the standard input, and may appear multiple times. The -u option forces output after each
record (i.e., one run through inputs).
EXAMPLE
To join files output1 and output2, separated by a comma:
rlam -t, output1 output2
To join a file with line numbers (starting at 0) and its reverse:
cnt `wc -l < lam.c` | rlam - -t: lam.c -t '!tail -r lam.c'
To join four data files, each having three doubles per record:
rlam -id3 file1.dbl file2.dbl file3.dbl file4.dbl > combined.dbl
AUTHOR
Greg Ward
SEE ALSO cnt(1), histo(1), neaten(1), rcalc(1), tabfunc(1), total(1)RADIANCE 7/8/97 RLAM(1)