Thanks for sharing your approach. Some comments on it:
Please supply minimum context info like OS and shell version, sample input, and desired output; or even more if applicable and helpful.
cat is not needed - grep or awk or many other commands do open and read files by themselves.
awk has great pattern matching capabilities - no grep piping into it needed.
shell variables ($DATE) are NEVER expanded within single quotes - use different mechanisms.
It's good habit to deploy the tool's of choice (awk) mechanisms - read the man page on the -v option for parameter passing.
Not sure what the ^',' pattern stands for and how it is being interpreted, try this modified version of your command pipe, if it comes close to what you need:
Hi
I have few files. For some files the cursor is at the end of last line. For other files, cursor is at the new line at the end.
I want to bring the cursor down to next line for the files that are having cursor at the end of last line
In otherwords, I want to introduce a blank line at the... (5 Replies)
I used following to add * at the end of the line in file1.
It adds * at the end but has a space before it for some lines but some other lines it adds exactly after the last character.
How do I take out the space ?
sed 's/$/*/' file1 > file2
example:
contents of file1 :
... (2 Replies)
This is what I want to do. I want to write a script that reads each line (of the highlighted file below) and add a specific number of blank lines (sometime 2, 3 or 5 lines) at the end of each line while copying that line. For example, here is the input.
The sky is blue.
I like to eat.
I like... (19 Replies)
Hi all,
using VI, can anyone tell me how to add some characters onto the end of a line where the line begins with certain charactars eg
a,b,c,.......,
r,s,t,........,
a,b,c,.......,
all lines in the above example starting with a,b,c, I want to add an x at the end of the line so the... (6 Replies)
Hi all,
I have this sample file (actual file is larger) and i need to add comma at the end of every line.
1234
4335
232345
1212
3535
Output
1234,
4335,
232345,
1212,
3535,
TIA - jak (2 Replies)
I trying to make a simple script to get info from remote servers my problem is the output of this line-
SERVER_NAME=`ssh -t $USER@$REMOTESERVER 'hostname'`the output is
linux1^M
I would like to remove the ^M
where is my error?
Many Thanks
-Steve (1 Reply)
Hello Everyone,
I need a help from experts of this community regarding one of the issue that I am facing with shell scripting.
My requirement is to append char's at the end of each line of a file. The char that will be appended is variable and will be passed through command line.
The... (20 Replies)
Hi,
I have a script which I need to change. I want to add a semicolon at the end of each line where the line starts with "grant"
for e.g.
create table(....
);
grant select on TABL1 to USER1
grant select on TABL1 to USER2should become
create table(....
);
grant select on TABL1 to... (3 Replies)
I have a file with dates as
'2013-01-01'
'2013-01-02'
I want the output to be '2013-01-01','2013-01-02'
if there is only 1 entry then there should not be any comma. (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: ATWC
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igawk
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)