One reason why a utility like awk might see an asterisk and include it in a diagnostic message even though it isn't visible when you cat the script onto your terminal is <backspace> characters in your script file. For example, if what you're seeing on your screen as:
actually contained some other text and <backspace>s as in the following:
that would produce the diagnostic message you've shown us from the script you've shown us.
Have you tried using:
to see if there are any invisible characters in your script?
Hi, guys. I have one question:
I have two files: passwd and shadow (the number of records in these files are not equal)the contents of them are below:
passwd:
**************
ftp:x:24:24:
sshd:x:71:65:
uucp:x:10:14:
brownj:x:5005:1000:
sherrys: x :5006:1000:
...
*************
... (2 Replies)
hi experts
please help me,thanks in advance
file1
arch : x86
install : pass
make os : pass
make build kernel : pass=100 failed=45
usb storage pass : The Linux Kernel Archives
file2
arch : ppc
install : failed
make os : http://kernel.org (6 Replies)
Help
I read a file that has 2 fields.
look for in a second file the first field and update it with the second field of first file.
file1
1131518fat11416.txt ../newaod/2001/04/2001-04-00129233-1.txt
file2
INSERT INTO tabric
VALUES... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I have 2 csv files. 1st file has 10 columns and the 2nd file has 12 columns.
The requirement is, if the 4th column of file1 matches with the 4th column of file2, then append the 12th column of file2 with file1.
Both files have equal number of lines and the 4th column values are... (1 Reply)
Dear programmers,
I have a question about conditionally merging multiple files and having their file names in the first column.
Input files:
file.1.extension file.2.extension file.3.extension file.4.extension ... file.1000.extension
where each file looks like this (with multiple lines):... (5 Replies)
Hello folks!
I am new to Shell and awk scripting.
This is my shell script that receives a string as an input from the user from the stdin.
#!bin/sh
printf "Enter your query\n"
read query
cmd=`echo $query | cut -f 1 -d " "`
input_file=`echo $query | cut -f 2 -d " "`
printf $input_file... (10 Replies)
Hi,
From a file, using:
awk -F" " '{ if (NF == 6) print $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6; if (NF == 5) print $1, $2, $3, $4, $5; }'
i printed out the required output. But i'm trying to merge the columns. Please look at the desired output. Any suggestions? Thanks
Output:
00015 PSA1 ... (5 Replies)