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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Issue with awk command Post 303000852 by nextStep on Friday 21st of July 2017 01:30:21 AM
Old 07-21-2017
Appreciate your help,it worked

The output is now properly obtained as below with spaces .This is expected as there are few other statements in the parent log which doesnot match the criteria.
Code:
userId: 5220818, first name: JOAN and last name: CHARLES is 23063



 userId: 8604826, first name: SUSAN and last name: PAICE is 5195



 userId: 17064784, first name: RAFAEL ALFONSO and last name: FABREGAS is 31970



 userId: 21930053, first name: AERRON and last name: GALANG is 3631



 userId: 8604826, first name: SUSAN and last name: PAICE is 5195

My next requirement was to make this .txt file to excel.On searching the forum i wrote the below code

Code:
awk 'BEGIN{ OFS="|"; print "Column1|Column2|Column3|Column4|Column5|Column6"};
> NR > 1{print $4, $4, $6, $7, $8, $9;}' file.txt > file.xls

The excel is generated but not in proper format.
1. All headers came in one column
2. The space in the .txt file has occupied in excel with many cells having |
3. The last column is not displayed with value.Ex 5195,3631 etc

Code:
Column1|Column2|Column3|Column4|Column5|Column6
|||||
name:|LENORE|and|last|name:|HARDER
|||||
|||||
|||||
name:|YITZCHOK|and|last|name:|PLOPPER
|||||
|||||
|||||
name:|IGOR|and|last|name:|REVA

Can the shell convert the txt into excel.any links available further on this.Thanks.

The desired output is as follows in xcel

Code:
UserID     First name   Lastname   Points
8604826  SUSAN         PAICE        5195

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 07-21-2017 at 05:12 PM.. Reason: Query to convert into excel; [mod] Added code tags
 

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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
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