The code Scrutinizer suggested should work on a correctly functioning awk, but GNU awk sometimes handles regular expressions slightly differently than the way they are specified in the standards. But, the error you are getting is coming from the Korn shell; not from awk and mismatched double-quotes inside a single-quoted string in a shell script should have absolutely no effect on the number of parentheses that the shell sees as shell operators (i.e., none).
Although, in theory, it shouldn't make any difference, please try the following slight modifications of Scrutinizer's suggestion:
and:
and let us know if either of these produce different results.
Can someone help me again, I think with awk? I have a file with 4 columns (pipe-delimited):
I just want to convert the last field so that e1 is now 'message 1', e2 is 'message 2', e0 is 'message 3', etc. I don't want to change any other columns because the e0-e10 code may appear as part of a... (4 Replies)
using sed to replace a specific string on a specific line number using variables
this is where i am at
grep -v WARNING output | grep -v spawn | grep -v Passphrase | grep -v Authentication | grep -v '/sbin/tfadmin netguard -C'| grep -v 'NETWORK>' >> output.clean
grep -n Destination... (2 Replies)
I'm trying to update a text file via sed/awk, after a lot of searching I still can't find a code snippet that I can get to work.
Brief overview:
I have user input a line to a variable, I then find a specific value in this line 10th field in this case. After asking for new input and doing some... (14 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm new to this forum and bash scripting. I have the following problem, I need to copy some files (from one dir. to another) whose first 5 numbers (subjects' ID) match the directory names. Here a shortened version of what I'm trying to do:
names=(32983_f 35416_f 43579_f) # these are... (6 Replies)
Hi I have one file which is containing about 5000 rows and 20 columns
I will just explain about my requirement here briefly with sample file, I have attached also, please help....me..
1 28.25 36.42
5 28.26 36.42
10 28.23 36.43
15 28.22 36.43
20 28.2 36.42
25... (6 Replies)
Hi All, I will need an help with respect to replacing a range of columns on a non-delimited file using a particular string pattern.
Say file input is
MYNUMBERD000000-BAN CHUE INSNTS ** N+
MYAREDSDD000000+BAN CHUE INSNTS ** N+
MYDERFFFSD00000-GIR PENT - ACH ** ... (5 Replies)
I have been reading old posts and trying to come up with a solution for the below: Use a tab-delimited input file to assign
point to variables that are used to update a specific field, Rank. I really couldn't find too much in the way of assigning points
to variable, but made an attempt at an awk... (4 Replies)
Hi Forum.
I tried searching for a solution using the internet search but I haven't been able to find any solution for what I'm trying to accomplish.
I have a fixed width column file where I need to search for any occurrences of "D0" in col pos.#1-2, 10-11, 20-21 and replaced it with "XD".
... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shtool-path
SHTOOL-PATH.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-PATH.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-path - GNU shtool command dealing with shell path variables
SYNOPSIS
shtool path [-s|--suppress] [-r|--reverse] [-d|--dirname] [-b|--basename] [-m|--magic] [-p|--path path] str [str ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command deals with shell $PATH variables. It can find a program through one or more filenames given by one or more str arguments. It
prints the absolute filesystem path to the program displayed on "stdout" plus an exit code of 0 if it was really found.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-s, --suppress
Supress output. Useful to only test whether a program exists with the help of the return code.
-r, --reverse
Transform a forward path to a subdirectory into a reverse path.
-d, --dirname
Output the directory name of str.
-b, --basename
Output the base name of str.
-m, --magic
Enable advanced magic search for ""perl"" and ""cpp"".
-p, --path path
Search in path. Default is to search in $PATH.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
awk=`shtool path -p "${PATH}:." gawk nawk awk`
perl=`shtool path -m perl`
cpp=`shtool path -m cpp`
revpath=`shtool path -r path/to/subdir`
HISTORY
The GNU shtool path command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1998 for Apache. It was later taken
over into GNU shtool.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), which(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-PATH.TMP(1)