An alternate solution using a (non-standard) member of the grep family:
will search <filename> for <search-string>. When found, it will also copy lines up to a line containing a match for <delimiter-string-list>.
Here are examples using an extended dataset:
producing:
The cgrep code needs to be acquired, compiled, and made available. I have done this several times over the years. An additional advantage is that cgrep is very fast.
Here are some details:
Best wishes ... cheers, drl
Hi there,
I was wondering if someone can help me with this.
I am trying the combine multiple columns from multiple files into one file.
Example file 1:
c0t0d0 c0t2d0 # hostname vgname
c0t0d1 c0t2d1 # hostname vgname
c0t0d2 c0t2d2 # hostname vgname
c0t1d0 c0t3d0 # hostname vgname1... (5 Replies)
This is related to one of my previous post but now with a slight difference: I need the "Updated:" to be in one line as well as the "Information:" on one line as well. These are in multiple lines right now as seen below. These can have 2 or more lines that needs to be in one line.
System name:... (8 Replies)
Hi Everyone !
i want to take all the lines from a file that falls in between some date... and every line in a file has a time stamp..
---some text---- 01/Jan/2010 ---- some other text ----
---some text---- 10/Jan/2010 ---- some other text ----
---some text---- 20/Dec/2010 ---- some... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have an issue to combine multiple lines of a file. I have records as below.
Fields are delimited by TAB. Each lines are ending with a new line char (\n)
Input
--------
ABC 123456 abcde 987
890456 7890 xyz
ght gtuv
ABC 5tyin 1234 789
ghty kuio
ABC ghty jind 1234
678 ght
... (8 Replies)
I can't decide if I should use AWK or PERL after pouring over these forums for hours today I decided I'd post something and see if I couldn't get some advice.
I've got a text file full of hundreds of events in this format:
Record Number : 1
Records in Seq : ... (3 Replies)
I am new to Shell scripting and below is my requirement.
I need to search some specific word e.g. "exception" or "transaction" from log file.
We have multiple env e.g. Level1 , Level2 etc and each env have Multiple boxes e.g. For Level 1 env we have "test11.test.com" , "test12.test.com".
Each... (1 Reply)
If a file has following kind of data, comma delimited
1,2,3,4
1
1
1,2,3,4
1,2
2
2,3,4
My required output must have only 4 columns with comma delimited
1,2,3,4
111,2,3,4
1,222,3,4
I have tried many awk command using ORS="" but couldnt progress (10 Replies)
In the awk below, what I am attempting to do is check each line in the tab-delimeted input, which has ~20 lines in it, for a keyword
SVTYPE=Fusion. If the keyword is found I am splitting $3 using the . (dot) and reading the portion before and after the dot in an array a.
If it does have that... (12 Replies)
I have been searching and trying to come up with an awk that will perform the following on a
converted text file (original is a pdf).
1. Since the first two lines are (begin with) text they are removed
2. if $1 is a number then all text is merged (combined) into one line until the next... (3 Replies)