As noted earlier, the arr=( ... ) construct discards leading and trailing space and the expansion of the variable also squeezes whitespace, and the empty fields are no longer recognised as fields during array assignment
Try this alternative instead (using your own awk approaches):
--
Note: The awk constructs will also squeeze spaces, so that would need some work as well
--
You could try this alternate approach using only bash shell:
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 12-29-2016 at 01:11 AM..
hello all,
I am working in a Hpux 11.0 64 bit environment. I am not sure if a third party software is doing this or not, but the admin to this server says it is not a server issue as he has check and double check logs and crons to verify this issue. My problem, is that every now and then, once... (4 Replies)
Hi all
I have a file that i'm running and exec(cat ./dat) against..and putting its contents into any array, then doing an exploding the array into a multi-dimension array...
The 15 multi-dimensional arrays have elements that are null/empty, I would like to remove/unset these elements and then... (2 Replies)
I have an input file having 7 fields delimited by ,
eg :
1,ABC,hg,1,2,34,3
2,hj,YU,2,3,4,
3,JU,kl,4,5,7,
4,JK,KJ,3,56,4,5
The seventh field here in some lines is empty, whereas the other lines there is a value.
How do I insert string NULL at this location (7th loc) for these lines where... (8 Replies)
Hello All,
I have this question that how to check for an array for NULL?
For eg.
#include<iostream.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
char arr;
if(arr == NULL)
{
cout<<"NULL";
}
}
Thanks a lott in advance!!! (3 Replies)
I have an array and two variables as below,
I need to check if $datevar is present in $filename.
If so, i need to replace $filename with the values in the array.
I need the output inside an ARRAY
How can this be done.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. (2 Replies)
i have an array (with each element length "n") which is dynamic and has alphanumeric characters.
i want to check if any of the elements of the array are null and replace it with a string of "n" zeros for that element.
can you suggest me a code for the same. (1 Reply)
Hi Experts,
I Have a query. In one of my server I just came to know that there was /dev/null file which is a not a character file. Its just a normal file. I know the command to create the character file (/dev/null) but what is the procedure. Like should i delete /dev/null and create or... (7 Replies)
hi,
Am trying to find a solution for finding a null column value inside a loop using array.
for eg:
two
three
five
From the above array myarray,myarray and myarray having null values. But when am trying to check that space using some condition its not working.
for (( i=0;... (4 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
dpkg-awk
DPKG-AWK(1) General Commands Manual DPKG-AWK(1)NAME
dpkg-awk - Utility to read a dpkg style db file
SYNOPSIS
dpkg-awk [(-f|--file) filename] [(-d|--debug) ##] [(-s|--sort) list] [(-rs|--rec_sep) ??] '<fieldname>:<regex>' ... -- <out_fieldname> ..
DESCRIPTION
dpkg-awk Parses a dpkg status file (or other similarly formatted file) and outputs the resulting records. It can use regex on the field
values to limit the returned records, it can also be told which fields to output, and it can sort the matched fields.
OPTIONS -f filename
--file filename
The file to parse. The default is /var/lib/dpkg/status.
-d [#]
--debug [#]
Each time this is specified, it increased the debug level.
-s field(s)
--sort field(s)
A space or comma separated list of fields to sort on.
-n field(s)
--numeric field(s)
A space or comma separated list of fields that should be interpreted as numeric in value.
-rs ??
--rec_sep ??
Output this string at the end of each output paragraph.
-h
--help Display some help.
fieldname
The fields from the file, that are matched with the regex given. The fieldnames are case insensitive.
out_fieldname
The fields from the file, that are output for each record. If the first field listed begins with ^, then the list of fields that
follows will NOT be output.
BUGS
Be warned that the author has only a shallow understanding of the dpkg packaging system, so there are probably tons of bugs in this pro-
gram.
This program comes with no warranties. If running this program causes fire and brimstone to rain down upon the earth, you will be on your
own.
This program accesses the dpkg database directly in places, querying for data that cannot be gotten via dpkg.
AUTHOR
Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
DEBIAN Debian Utilities DPKG-AWK(1)