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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Insert newline when grep result is empty Post 302980045 by JBVeenstra on Tuesday 23rd of August 2016 07:37:03 AM
Old 08-23-2016
Insert newline when grep result is empty
Given a csv file with 40 columns with name, address, hometown etc.
I use a bash command in 1 line which:
1. gets the address column and pipes that to
2. grep the first digit and everything that follows

Command:
Code:
awk -F ";" '{print $19}' /Users/jb/Desktop/ReorderTempTotal.csv  | grep -o "\d.*"

It generates the results I want, except in the case that the grep result is empty.
When there is no digit present, the command prints nothing and the result will end up with 1 line less. That gives a problem in further processing. I need the same number of lines as in the original file. So in that case I'd like to insert a new line for further processing.
And the code needs to be in one line
 

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NAME

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