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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk to update unknown value in file using range of another Post 302986086 by Don Cragun on Saturday 19th of November 2016 09:21:27 PM
Old 11-19-2016
I would have commented the code this way:
Code:
awk '		# Run awk to process the following awk script...
BEGIN {	OFS = "\t"		# Set output field separator.
}
FNR == NR {			# For each line in the 1st input file...
	split($1, a, /[-:]/)	# Split the 1st field into a[] with hyphen and
				# colon as subfield separators.
	s[++c] = a[1]		# Save the symbol found at the start of this line.
				# c is the current line number in the 1st file.
	m[c] = a[2]		# Save the minimum value found on this line.
	M[c] = a[3]		# Save the maximum value found on this line.
	t[c] = $2		# Save the tag found on this line.
	next			# Skip the remaining steps in this script.
}
$6 == "unknown" {		# For lines in the 2nd input file where $6 is
				# the string "unknown"...
	for(i = 1; i <= c; i++)	# Search for an entry in the arrays set while
				# reading the 1st input file where the symbol
				# on that line is the same as $1 on this line
				# and the minimum on that line is <= $2 on this
				# line and the maximum on that line is >= $3 on
				# this line...
		if($1 == s[i] && $2 + 0 >= m[i] + 0 && $3 + 0 <= M[i] + 0) {
			$6 = t[i]	# and if all of those conditions are met,
					# replace the "unknown" with the tag from
					# that line, and
			break		# break out of this for loop.
		}
}
1				# Print the (possibly updated) line from the 2nd
				# file.
' file1 file2	# End the awk script and name the input files to be processed.

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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)
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