I don't know what you mean about the problem being the version of awk you were using when there were so many logic errors in your code. But, if you have it working now, congratulations.
Note, however, that in addition to the corrections MadeInGermany already listed, you also need to be absolutely sure that your first input file has exactly one <space> character before and after each word you're searching for as possible text to be replaced. For example, with the sample data you provided, no changes would be made to the following lined of text:
You might also want to note that if there are any punctuation characters before or after any of the words you want to replace, the code you're using won't find and/or replace them.
Hi there,
We have been given a bit of coursework using awk on html pages. Without giving too much away and risking the wrath of the plagerism checks, I can say we need to deal with certain html elements.
There may be several of these elements on one line. My question is, if there are more... (1 Reply)
This should be somewhat simple, but I need some help with this one.
I have a bunch of files with tags on the end like so...
Filename {tag1}.ext
Filename2 {tag1} {tag2}.ext
I want to hold in a variable just the filename with all the " {tag}" removed. The tag can be anything so I'm looking... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am using sub to remove blank spaces and one pattern(=>) from the input string. It works fine when I am using two sub functions for the same. However it is giving error while I am trying to remove both spaces and pattern using one single sub function.
Working:
$ echo " OK => " |awk... (2 Replies)
Hi Bigshots,
I have a pattern file with two columns. I have another data file. If column 1 in the pattern file appears as the 4th column in the data file, I need to replace it (4th column of data file) with column 2 of the pattern file. If the pattern is found in any other column, it should not... (6 Replies)
Hi Team
I have the following text in one of the file
j1738-abc-system_id(in.value1)-2838 G566-deF-system_id(in.value2)-7489
I want to remove system_id(...) combination completely The output should look like this
j1738-abc-in.value1-2838 G566-deF-in.value2-7489
Any help is appreciated... (4 Replies)
Hi forum,
Can you please help me understand how to look for and replace the below pattern (containing line breaks) and return a new result?
Rules: Must match the 3 line pattern and return a 1 line result.
I have found solutions with sed, but it seems that sed installed in my system is... (5 Replies)
I need to check if 2 values exists in the file and if they are equal print 0.
output.txt:
------------
1 2 3 4 5 6
Inputs:
a=1
b=2
My pattern matching code works but I am trying to set a counter if both the pattern matches which does not work.If the count > 0,then I want to... (3 Replies)
I am able to grep multiple patterns which stored in a files. However, how could we replace the whole line with either the pattern or new string?
For example:
pattern_file: *Info in the () is not part of the pattern file. They are the intended name to replace the whole line after the pattern... (5 Replies)