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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Awk: split and gensub query Post 303037765 by RudiC on Tuesday 13th of August 2019 06:31:59 AM
Old 08-13-2019
You are right - the pos variable is split into the var array. Then, in all input lines ($0), gensub (a specific gawk function) replaces the characters (no matter what they are!) at the positions in var by the pipe symbol, as said in man gawk:

Quote:
gensub(regexp, replacement, how [, target])
Search the target string target for matches of the regular expression regexp. If how is a string beginning with ‘g' or ‘G' (short for “global”¯), then replace all matches of regexp with replacement. Otherwise, treat how as a number indicating which match of regexp to replace. Treat numeric values less than one as if they were one. If no target is supplied, use $0. Return the modified string as the result of the function. The original target string is not changed.
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flow-split

flow-split(1)						      General Commands Manual						     flow-split(1)

NAME

       flow-split -- Split flow files into smaller files.

SYNOPSIS

       flow-split [-gGhn]  [-b big|little]  [-C comment]  [-d debug_level]  [-N nflows]  [-o outfile_basename]	[-T nseconds]  [-z z_level]

DESCRIPTION

       The flow-split utility will split a flow file into smaller files based on the the number of flows or the ammount of time that has passed.

OPTIONS

       -b big|little
		 Byte order of output.

       -C Comment
		 Add a comment.

       -d debug_level
		 Enable debugging.

       -g	 Split on source tag.

       -G	 Split on destination tag.

       -h	 Display help.

       -n	 Use symbols for tag field in filename.

       -N nflows Split after processing nflows.

       -o outfile_basename
		 The basename of the resulting files.

       -T nsecond
		 Split after processing an interval of nseconds flows.

       -z z_level
		 Configure compression level to  z_level.  0 is disabled (no compression), 9 is highest compression.

EXAMPLES

       Create 1 minute flow files from the flow archive in /flows/krc4.  Store the results in /flows/krc4.split

	 flow-cat /flows/krc4 | flow-split -T60 -o /flows/krc4.split/1min.

BUGS

       None known.

AUTHOR

       Mark Fullmer maf@splintered.net

SEE ALSO

       flow-tools(1)

																     flow-split(1)
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