Difficulties in matching left bracket as literal in awk
I need to work with records having #AX in the EXP1 , please see my data sample and my attempt below:
I tied other way specify left bracket an it worked:
I tried awk, nawk and gawk, same results, although gawk is more helpful in spelling out which file and line caused the problem when I used '\[' escape sequence.
My question is why awk dies? and why gawk shows this warning about '\[' treated as plain '['?
Hi,
I am looking for a simple command to select text within a open bracket "("
and a matching close bracket ")" and output the within-bracket-text to a file.
This function is similar to the common vi select a range of text with "(" to ")"
but not sure how to run the same function in command... (4 Replies)
The data we are searching is populated in this way:
----IP---------DAY----MONTH----DATE--------TIME---------YEAR
12.3234.34-----Fri------Nov-------15-------18:05:14 GMT---2008
I want the user to be able to search for the data according to month and year.
However, I cannot quite figure out... (8 Replies)
Hello,
I want to get the User Name details of a user from a file list.
This list can be in the format:
FirstName_MiddleName1_LastName_ID
FirstName_LastName_ID
FirstName_MiddleName1_MiddleName2_LastName_ID
What i want it to return is FirstName_MiddleName1_LastName of a user.
I... (6 Replies)
Can somebody tell me the difference between double brackets and single
brackets, when doing a test.
I have always been acustomed to using single brackets and have not
encountered any issues to date. Why would somebody use double brackets.
Ie
if ]
vs
if
Thanks to... (2 Replies)
Hi guys,
I need to use awk to join 2 files
file_1
A 001
B 002
C 003
file_2
A XX1
B XX2
output desired
A 001 XX1
B 002 missing
C 003 XX2
thank you! (2 Replies)
Hi guys,
I need AWK to merge the following 2 files:
file1
1 a 1 1
2 b 2 2
3 c 3 3
4 d 4 4
file2
a a/a c/c a/c c/c a/a c/t
c c/t c/c a/t g/g c/c c/t
desired output:
1 a 1 1 a/a c/c a/c c/c a/a c/t
2 b 2 2 x x x x x x
3 c 3 3 c/t c/c a/t g/g c/c c/t
4 d 4 4 x x x x x x (2 Replies)
Hello All,
I have this script to awk IP to new file.
#awk '/myip|yourip/ {sub(/...\....\....\..../, newip)}1' newip=$IP existing.txt > new.txt
When existing.txt has myip=192.168.123.123 and $IP has 192.168.12.12, the awk script is not working. But while I add zero left padding to $IP i.e,... (3 Replies)
Hi Experts,
A quick question.
- How to put a 2nd bracket in the last character of the input string.
a=blah or a=1234 or a=anything
Desired output to be :
bla or 123 or anythin
What I have tried is not working:
echo $a| sed 's/$//'
blah
Thanks a lot. (3 Replies)
I am developing a database for translating names. I have mapped through a rule engine syllables in English to syllables in Indic, delimited by an equal to sign.
An example will illustrate this
ra m=रा म
ku ma r=कु मा र
mo=मो
la l=ला ल
gi ta=गी ता
ka la va ti=कa ला वa ती
However it so... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: gimley
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igawk
IGAWK(1) Utility Commands IGAWK(1)NAME
igawk - gawk with include files
SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...
DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).
AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like
@include getopt.awk
in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.
OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.
EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk
@include getopt.awk
BEGIN {
while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
...
}
EOF
igawk -f test.awk
SEE ALSO gawk(1)
Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.
AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).
Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)