@OP You are using
, which means that the fields are single TAB characters and the fields are separated by anything else.
If I change -vFPAT='\t' to -vFS='\t' then I get: -vFS='\t' can be shortened to -F'\t', so it would become:
or
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Wants to print line when there exist leading or trailing space or tab in fields 2,3 and 5
The below code prints all lines in file even if they dont have leading and trailing space or tab.
nawk -F"|" '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) {if ($i ~ "^*" || $i ~ "*$")}}1' file
file
Ouput required:
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Dear All,
Good Day. I would like to hear your suggestions for the following problem:
I have a file with 5 columns with some numbers in 16 lines as shown below.
Input file:
Col 1 Col 2 Col 3 Col 4 Col 5
12 220 2 121 20
234 30 22 9... (3 Replies)
HI,
Need awk command to get date and time alone from
Input : "15:29:15 28.08.2010|SCHEDULE: Started program POSG1"
Output expected : "15:29:15 28.08.2010"
Please help. (9 Replies)
I have a file containing about 5 million rows, in the file there are some records which has extra delimiter at random position. (we dont know the positions), now we have to Count the delimeter from each row and if the count of delimeter is not matching then I want to delete those rows from the... (5 Replies)
Hi all,
Currently i am using
if( $0~/ NOT / && $0~/ NULL /)
{
.................
}
to check if the input record contains "NOT" and "NULL". But in some cases "NOT" and "NULL" are preceded and followed by tab. How do i find compare for these fields as well? (3 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I have a file1.txt as below
29123973Ç2012-0529Ç35310124Ç000000000004762Ç00010Ç20Ç390ÇÇÇÇF
29123974Ç20120529Ç35310125Ç0000000000046770Ç00010Ç20Ç390ÇÇÇÇF
29123975Ç20120529Ç35310126Ç0000000000046804Ç00010Ç20Ç390ÇÇÇÇF
29123976Ç20120529Ç35310127Ç0000000000044820Ç00010Ç20Ç390ÇÇÇÇF
i have a file2.txt... (4 Replies)
I have file like below
abc 12 34 45 code
abcdef 451 1 4 code
ghtyggg 4 56 3 code
I need to change this to
abc|12|34|45|code|
abcdef|451|1|4|code|
ghtyggg|4|56|3|code|
I tried replace space with | in sed ... but in the middle some row has... (7 Replies)
I've a pipe delimited data in a file of size 3GB. if the text data conatins pipe delimiter that will be enclose with double quotes. I have to replace delimiter which exists between double quotes with #%@#%@#%@ using awk or sed. can some one provide a better and efficient solution to me.
The below... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I have an awk command that uses the substr function - At the moment I know the length of the values so can use the example below i.e substr(i,0,1)
However in future these lengths may change so wondered if you can use a delimiter within a substr? Like in bash you could use cut -d ';',... (6 Replies)
I am just trying to output the below awk separated by tabs. Thank you :).
awk (added OFS as an attempt to itroduce tabs)
awk '{split($5,a,"-"); OFS='\t' print $1,$2,$3,a}' file.bed > test.bed
The awk runs and produces all the data in 1 field instead of 4 fields.
current output
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