1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have data that looks like this aaa!bbb!ccc/ddd/eee It is not fixed format. I need to parse ddd into a var in order to decide if I want to process that row. If I do I need to put ccc and bbb into vars to process it. I need to do this during a while loop one record at a time. Any... (11 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Is there a betterway to cut certain columns in everyline based on positions. Basically, I have a largefile and eachline is of 1000 characters and I need to cut the characters 17-30, 750-775, 776-779, 780-805 while do fptr=`cat $tempfile | head -$i | tail -1` ... (4 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file with the following format 12g data/datasets/cct 8g data/dataset/cct 10 g data/two 5g data/something_different 10g something_different 5g data/two is there a way to loop through this... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I'm using awk in HP-UX machine which does not support systime(), strftime(). So to get the date time I was using : seq 1 100000 | awk ' "date +%Y%m%d%H%M%s" | getline curtime; print curtime }' However the above code gets the date only once, next time it is not updated. For... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All, I am new to shell scripting and programming. I am looking for a guide on how I can parse specific information from a plain text file with thousands of lines. Specifically I need to parse an email address from each line. The line looks something like this:... (9 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Good afternoon! I have an XML file from which I want to extract only certain elements contained within each line. The problem is that the format of each line is not exactly the same (though similiar). For example, oa_var will be in each line, however, there may be no value or other... (3 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I want to add a letter to the end of a string if it repeats in a column. so if I have a file like this: DOG001 DOG0023 DOG004 DOG001 DOG0023 DOG001 the output should look like this: DOG001-a DOG0023-a DOG004 DOG001-b (15 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am executing df -mP to see the disk utilization. I would like to append servername also to each and every line. df -mP | awk '{ print $1","$2","$3","$4","$5","$6 }' trying to add something like this df -mP | awk '{ print $1","$2","$3","$4","$5","$6","$hostname }' ... (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

All, I have a sample text like below. Key (Header) Key1 ABC Key2 ABC Key3 ABC ABC Key4 ABC Key5 ABC ABC ABC Required Output Key (Header) Key1 (2 Replies)

10. Programming

Another project, another bump in the road and another chance to learn. I've been trying to open gzipped files and parse data from them and hit a snag. I have data in gzips with a place followed by an ip or ip range sort of like this: Some place:x.x.x.x-x.x.x.x I was able to modify some code... (6 Replies)