Sponsored Content
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting A cleaner way to rearrange column Post 302986601 by drl on Monday 28th of November 2016 06:19:50 AM
Old 11-28-2016
Hi.

I'll skip the usual posting of the entire demonstration script.
Code:
Input:
a  b  c  d  e  f  g  h  i
1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 1,6 1,7 1,8 1,9
2,1 2,2 2,3 2,4 2,5 2,6 2,7 2,8 2,9
3,1 3,2 3,3 3,4 3,5 3,6 3,7 3,8 3,9

-----
 Results for sequence "recut 1,2,1,4,6-":
a       b       a       d       f       g       h       i
1,1     1,2     1,1     1,4     1,6     1,7     1,8     1,9
2,1     2,2     2,1     2,4     2,6     2,7     2,8     2,9
3,1     3,2     3,1     3,4     3,6     3,7     3,8     3,9

Environment: LC_ALL = C, LANG = C
(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
OS, ker|rel, machine: Linux, 3.16.0-4-amd64, x86_64
Distribution        : Debian 8.6 (jessie) 
bash GNU bash 4.3.30
recut - ( local: RepRev 1.1, ~/bin/recut, 2010-06-10 )
csvtool - ( /usr/bin/csvtool, 2014-08-06 )

Missing textutils:
http://www1.cuni.cz/~obo/textutils/ verified (2016.08)

The recut command allows dash-notation, replication of fields, etc. The details for recut are:
Code:
recut   Process fields like cut, allow repetitions and re-ordering. (what)
Path    : ~/bin/recut
Version : - ( local: RepRev 1.1, ~/bin/recut, 2010-06-10 )
Length  : 56 lines
Type    : Perl script, ASCII text executable
Shebang : #!/usr/bin/perl
Modules : (for perl codes)
 Getopt::Long   2.42

See the webpage noted above for 80 or so similar commands.

The command csvtool can also do this:
Code:
 Results for sequence "csvtool -t " " -u " " col 1,2,1,4-5,6-":
a b a d e f g h i
1,1 1,2 1,1 1,4 1,5 1,6 1,7 1,8 1,9
2,1 2,2 2,1 2,4 2,5 2,6 2,7 2,8 2,9
3,1 3,2 3,1 3,4 3,5 3,6 3,7 3,8 3,9

Best wishes ... cheers, drl

Last edited by drl; 11-28-2016 at 08:03 AM..
This User Gave Thanks to drl For This Post:
 

9 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

rearrange a file

hi! in awk, i have a file like this: Trace1: WRIT,Trace2: BLAN,Trace3: BLAN, -47.2120018005371,,,39815.4809027778 -46.3009986877441,,,39815.4809027778 -46.277000427246,,,39815.4809143519 -46.7389984130859,,,39815.4809259259 -46.3460006713867,,,39815.4809259259... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: riderman
10 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

script to rearrange data.

Hello. I have data in the following format (the spaces at the beginning of lines are included): 1 2 2 0.39621 0.00000 1 2 2 0.00000+-0.0000 * 1 2 ... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: andersgs
5 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

rearrange the column names with comma as column delimiter

Hi, I am new to shell scripting, i have requirement can any one help me out in this regrads, in directory i have file like invoice1.txt, invoice2.txt in each file i have fixed number of columns, 62 in number but they are randomly arranged.like for first file invoice1.txt can have columns... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: madhav62
5 Replies

4. Programming

How to simplify this perl script to a cleaner simpler look?

my $branch_email_e = $FORM{r_Branch}; my $hostbranch_email_e = $FORM{r_Host_Branch}; my $branch_email_f = $FORM{r_Direction_generale}; my $hostbranch_email_f = $FORM{r_Direction_generale_daccueil}; my $branch_realname_e = ''; my $branch_realname_f = ''; ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: callyvan
4 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Grabbing the newest file, cleaner method?

Greetings, I'm doing a process whereby I need to search for all filenames containing a given bit of text and grab the newest file from what may be 20 results. In a script I'm writing, i've got a monster line to do the sort as follows: find /opt/work/reports/input -name "*$searchtarget*" |... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Karunamon
4 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Cleaner method for this if-then statement?

I have a script that runs once per month. It performs a certain task ONLY if the month is January, April, July, or October. MONTH=`date +%m` if || || || ; then do something else do a different thing fi Is there a neater way of doing it than my four separate "or" comparisons? That... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: lupin..the..3rd
2 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Cleaner way to use shell variable in awk /X/,/Y/ syntax?

$ cat data Do NOT print me START_MARKER Print Me END_MARKER Do NOT print me $ cat awk.sh start=START_MARKER end=END_MARKER echo; echo Is this ugly syntax the only way? awk '/'"$start"'/,/'"$end"'/ { print }' data echo; echo Is there some modification of this that would work? awk... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: hanson44
2 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Maybe a cleaner way to generate a file?

greetings, to be clear, i have a solution but i'm wondering if anyone has a cleaner way to accomplish the following: the variable: LSB_MCPU_HOSTS='t70c7n120 16 t70c7n121 16 t70c7n122 16 t70c7n123 16 t70c7n124 16 t70c7n125 16 t70c7n126 16 t70c7n127 16 t70c7n128 16 t70c7n129 16 t70c7n130 16... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: crimso
2 Replies

9. War Stories

Data Centre meets Vacuum Cleaner

Hi Folks, I have just spent a couple of days resolving some problems at the remote DR data centre, sorting out the problems caused by the over zealous use of a Vacuum cleaner of all things. We have a backup server a SUN V480R with a Storedge 3510 and expansion attached which suffered a... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: gull04
6 Replies
shells(4)							   File Formats 							 shells(4)

NAME
shells - shell database SYNOPSIS
/etc/shells DESCRIPTION
The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser- shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root. A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by the routines which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored. The following default shells are used by utilities: /bin/bash, /bin/csh, /bin/jsh, /bin/ksh, /bin/pfcsh, /bin/pfksh, /bin/pfsh, /bin/sh, /bin/tcsh, /bin/zsh, /sbin/jsh, /sbin/sh, /usr/bin/bash, /usr/bin/csh, /usr/bin/jsh, /usr/bin/ksh, /usr/bin/pfcsh, /usr/bin/pfksh, /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh. Note that /etc/shells overrides the default list. Invalid shells in /etc/shells may cause unexpected behavior (such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1)). FILES
/etc/shells lists shells on system SEE ALSO
vipw(1B), ftpd(1M), sendmail(1M), getusershell(3C), aliases(4) SunOS 5.10 4 Jun 2001 shells(4)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 04:36 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy