String has * as the field delimiter and I need echo/awk to escape it, how?
Hi,
I am trying to read an Oracle listener log file line by line and need to separate the lines into several fields. The field delimiter for the line happens to be an asterisk.
I have the script below to start with but when running it, the echo command is globbing it to include other information that I don't need.
I've also tried doing awk -F "\*" and that does not make any difference besides giving the warning awk: warning: escape sequence `\*' treated as plain `*'
I also need to somehow extract the line below to each respective fields, i.e. CONNECT_DATA, PROGRAM, USER, SERVER, SERVICE_NAME,HOST and PORT .
Here's wishing Oracle could have provided something to parse their own log. Maybe there is a program/script/utility out there that can parse log files of any format?
I will have to somehow change the timestamp to YYYYMMDD. For the time being, I need to be able to get around the asterisk globbing to start with.
How can i set a variable field delimiter using awk??
I wanna do something like this ,but i canīt get the correct syntaxis :
VARI=TEST
echo "0121212TESTxvcshaashd"|awk 'FS="$VARI" {print $2}'
Thanks. (2 Replies)
Hello,
I had posted earlier about printing fields using AWK, but now I have a slightly different problem. I have text files in the format:
1*2,3,4,5
and wish to print the first, third, and fifth fields, including the asterisk and commas. In other words, after filtering it should look... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I need an awk script to receive a variable that's an decimal value such as 009 or 031 and then convert this value to an ascii character to use as the FS (field separator for the input file).
For example,
009 should be converted to an ascii tab
031 should be converted to an ascii... (1 Reply)
Dear All,
1.txt (tab in between each value in a line)
a b c
a b c
a c d
you can see below, why with ~ i can output with tab, but = cannot?
# awk -F'\t' '$2 ~ /b/' 1
a b c
a b c
# awk -F'\t' '$2 = "b"' 1
a b c
a b c
a b d
... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I wanted to find 200th field value in delimiter file using awk.?
awk '{print $200}' inputfile
I am getting error message :-
awk: The field 200 must be in the range 0 to 199.
The source line number is 1.
The error context is
{print >>> $200 <<< }
using... (4 Replies)
Hello, I am using awk to match text in a tab separated field and am able to do so when matching the exact word. My problem is that I would like to match any sequence of text in the tab-separated field without having to match it all. Any help will be appreciated. Please see the code below.
awk... (3 Replies)
hi,
just wanted to make a shortcut of this one
a="a b c"
b=`echo $a | awk '{print $2}'`
echo "the middle is $b"
why can't i do this:
a="a b c"
echo "the middle is ${`echo $a | awk '{print $2}'`}" <- bad substitution :wall:
thanks (6 Replies)
Hi Experts,
i need to change delimiter from tab to ","
sample test file
cat test
A0000368 A29938511 072569352 5 Any 2 for Ģ1.00 BUTCHERS|CAT FOOD|400G Sep 12 2012 12:00AM Jan 5 2014 11:59PM Sep 7 2012 12:00AM M 2.000 group 5
... (2 Replies)
We have a csv file as mentioned below and the requirement is to change the date format in file as mentioned below.
Current file (file.csv)
----------------------
empname,date_of_join,dept,date_of_resignation
ram,08/09/2015,sales,21/06/2016
"akash,sahu",08/10/2015,IT,21/07/2016
... (6 Replies)
I will start with an example of what I'm trying to do and then describe how I am approaching the issue.
File
PS028,005
Lexeme HRS # M #
PhraseType 1(1:1) 7(7)
PhraseLab 501 503
ClauseType ZYq0
PS028,005
Lexeme W # L> # BNH # M #... (17 Replies)
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fmlcut(1F) FMLI Commands fmlcut(1F)NAME
fmlcut - cut out selected fields of each line of a file
SYNOPSIS
fmlcut -clist [filename...]
fmlcut -flist [-dchar] [-s] [filename...]
DESCRIPTION
The fmlcut function cuts out columns from a table or fields from each line in filename; in database parlance, it implements the projection
of a relation. fmlcut can be used as a filter; if filename is not specified or is -, the standard input is read. list specifies the fields
to be selected. Fields can be fixed length (character positions) or variable length (separated by a field delimiter character), depending
on whether -c or -f is specified.
Note: Either the -c or the -f option must be specified.
OPTIONS
list A comma-separated list of integer field numbers (in increasing order), with optional - to indicate ranges. For example: 1,4,7;
1-3,8; -5,10 (short for 1-5,10); or 3- (short for third through last field).
-clist If -c is specified, list specifies character positions (for instance, -c1-72 would pass the first 72 characters of each line).
Note: No space intervenes between -c and list.
-flist If -f is specified, list is a list of fields assumed to be separated in the file by the default delimiter character, TAB, or by
char if the -d option is specified. For example, -f1,7 copies the first and seventh field only. Lines with no delimiter characters
are passed through intact (useful for table subheadings), unless -s is specified. Note: No space intervenes between -f and list.
The following options can be used if you have specified -f.
-dchar If -d is specified, char is the field delimiter. Space or other characters with special meaning to FMLI must be quoted.
Note: No space intervenes between -d and char . The default field delimiter is TAB.
-s Suppresses lines with no delimiter characters. If -s is not specified, lines with no delimiters will be passed through
untouched.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Getting login IDs and names
The following example gets the login IDs and names.
example% fmlcut -d: -f1,5 /etc/passwd
Example 2: Getting the current login name
The next example gets the current login name.
example% `who am i | fmlcut -f1 -d" "`
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO fmlgrep(1F), attributes(5)DIAGNOSTICS
fmlcut returns the following exit values:
0 when the selected field is successfully cut out
2 on syntax errors
The following error messages may be displayed on the FMLI message line:
ERROR: line too long
A line has more than 1023 characters or fields, or there is no new-line character.
ERROR: bad list for c/f option
Missing -c or -f option or incorrectly specified list. No error occurs if a line has fewer fields than the list calls for.
ERROR: no fields
The list is empty.
ERROR: no delimiter
Missing char on -d option.
NOTES
fmlcut cannot correctly process lines longer than 1023 characters, or lines with no newline character.
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