In awk, the substr() function is used to extract (partial) strings, but can't be assigned to. You'd need to either break up the line, with substr()s, and reassemble with the new data, or use the sub() / gsub() functions.
Would sed do as well? Try
Hi
I need to be search a file of fixed length records and when I hit a particular record that match a search string, substitute a known position field
In the example file below
FHEAD000000000120090806143011
THEAD0000000002Y0000000012 P00000000000000001234
TTAIL0000000003... (0 Replies)
Hi,
How to output the duplicate record to another file. We say the record is duplicate based on a column whose position is from 2 and its length is 11 characters.
The file is a fixed width file.
ex of Record:
DTYU12333567opert tjhi kkklTRG9012
The data in bold is the key on which... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a fixed width text file without any header row. One of the columns contains a date in YYYYMMDD format.
If the original file contains 3 dates, I want my shell script to split the file into 3 small files with data for each date.
I am a newbie and need help doing this. (14 Replies)
Hi,
I am unable to find the right option to extract the data in the fixed width file.
sample data
abcd1234xgyhsyshijfkfk
hujk9876 io xgla
loki8787eljuwoejroiweo
dkfj9098 dja
Search based on position 8-9="xg" and print the entire row
output
... (4 Replies)
I have a fixed with file with header & trailer length having the same length of the detail record file.
The details record length of this file is 24, for Header and Trailer the records will be padded with spaces to match the record length of the file
Currently I am adding 3 spaces in header... (14 Replies)
Input eg:
Ouput Expected.
The #rd line had the unexpted new line, which need to be replaced with space.
I was planing to go with checking the length of each line using awk and if the length is less than the defeined limit, (12 in above case) will replace the newline with space.
... (5 Replies)
All,
I used to use following command to replace specific location in a fixed width file.
Recently looks like my command stopped working as intended. We are on AIX unix.
awk 'function repl(s,f,t,v)
{ return substr(s,1,f-1) sprintf("%-*s", t-f+1, v) substr(s,t+1) }
NR<=10 {... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to select the rows in a fixed width file based on values in the columns.
I want to select only the rows if column position 3-4 has the value AB
I am using cut command to get the column values. Is it possible to check if cut -c3-4 = AB is true then select only that... (2 Replies)
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ausearch_add_expression
AUSEARCH_ADD_expression(3) Linux Audit API AUSEARCH_ADD_expression(3)NAME
ausearch_add_expression - build up search expression
SYNOPSIS
#include <auparse.h>
int ausearch_add_expression(auparse_state_t *au, const char *expression, char **error, ausearch_rule_t how);
DESCRIPTION
ausearch_add_item adds an expression to the current audit search expression. The search conditions can then be used to scan logs, files,
or buffers for something of interest. The expression parameter contains an expression, as specified in ausearch-expression(5).
The how parameter determines how this search expression will affect the existing search expression, if one is already defined. The possi-
ble values are:
AUSEARCH_RULE_CLEAR
Clear the current search expression, if any, and use only this search expression.
AUSEARCH_RULE_OR
If a search expression E is already configured, replace it by (E || this_search_expression).
AUSEARCH_RULE_AND
If a search expression E is already configured, replace it by (E && this_search_expression).
RETURN VALUE
If successful, ausearch_add_expression returns 0. Otherwise, it returns -1, sets errno and it may set *error to an error message; the
caller must free the error message using free(3). If an error message is not available or can not be allocated, *error is set to NULL.
SEE ALSO ausearch_add_item(3), ausearch_add_interpreted_item(3), ausearch_add_timestamp_item(3), ausearch_add_regex(3), ausearch_set_stop(3), ause-
arch_clear(3), ausearch_next_event(3), ausearch-expression(5).
AUTHOR
Miloslav Trmac
Red Hat Feb 2008 AUSEARCH_ADD_expression(3)