I recently started as an intern and my manager wanted to see how well I would handle Korn Bourne shell scripting without any prior experience, I have prior programming experience but I keep running into syntax errors with AWK. Please take a look at my simple code and tell me what stupid mistake... (6 Replies)
I have written many awk commands which go in multiple lines.
I have this confusion many times.
Some time they work if i dont terminate them with "\" but some time error.
Some time in "if" statements between if and else if i dont use ";" it gives error but sometimes it doesnt.
The below... (4 Replies)
I don't get correct output when I run this command line:
nmap -sP failedhost.com | grep -i failed | awk -F '{print $6}'
I basically want it to return 'failedhost.com' but its just showing the output of the nmap scan. (8 Replies)
Hi I am trying to understand AWK syntax
so I tried this command which gives me the home directory of root
awk 'BEGIN { FS = ":"} {if ($1 == "root") print $6 }' /etc/passwd
I would know what are the following commands doing. The first one prints all /etc/passwd, second prints nothing.
... (4 Replies)
Little bit confusing while using awk :confused::confused:
In Sed while pattern search we can use "(double quotes)
i mean
$a=hello
$cat file.txt |sed -n "/$a/p"this thing work fine But if i use it in awk it's not working How could i do the substitution of pattern by a variables and the... (1 Reply)
i have a ksh code that needs to be written in AWK. can someone please help me here? :(
if }" | grep -c "$2") -gt 0 ] ; then
print - "found $2 in array ignore"
else
print - "did not find $2 in array ignore"
fi
ignore=4ty56r
ignore=er45ty
.
.
.
ignore=frhtg2 (27 Replies)
I have a file which is comma separated and has quotes. I can use this command and
awk -F"," '{ if ($4=="01" print $0 }' test.txt
But this doesn't fetch me the data.since it has quotes.
If the data has no quotes,the above command works fine.
In Unix you can skip quote \" but this doesn't work.... (7 Replies)
Hi I have a bash file which will split a big file to many small files.
But I got a syntax error.H="$(head -1 CCC.tped)"
awk 'print $0 > $1 ".tped"' CCC.tped
for f in $(ls *.tped); do echo "$H\n" "$(cat $f)" >$f; done
And
-bash-4.1$ bash split
awk: print $0 > $1".tped"
awk: ^ syntax error... (3 Replies)
Hello Experts:
While writing a script to help one of the posts on here, I end up writing a wrong one. I am very much eager to know how this can be corrected.
Aim was to not print specified columns - lets say out of 100 fields, need to print all but 5th, 10th, 15th columns.
Someone already... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: juzz4fun
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
dpkg-awk
DPKG-AWK(1) General Commands Manual DPKG-AWK(1)NAME
dpkg-awk - Utility to read a dpkg style db file
SYNOPSIS
dpkg-awk [(-f|--file) filename] [(-d|--debug) ##] [(-s|--sort) list] [(-rs|--rec_sep) ??] '<fieldname>:<regex>' ... -- <out_fieldname> ..
DESCRIPTION
dpkg-awk Parses a dpkg status file (or other similarly formatted file) and outputs the resulting records. It can use regex on the field
values to limit the returned records, it can also be told which fields to output, and it can sort the matched fields.
OPTIONS -f filename
--file filename
The file to parse. The default is /var/lib/dpkg/status.
-d [#]
--debug [#]
Each time this is specified, it increased the debug level.
-s field(s)
--sort field(s)
A space or comma separated list of fields to sort on.
-n field(s)
--numeric field(s)
A space or comma separated list of fields that should be interpreted as numeric in value.
-rs ??
--rec_sep ??
Output this string at the end of each output paragraph.
-h
--help Display some help.
fieldname
The fields from the file, that are matched with the regex given. The fieldnames are case insensitive.
out_fieldname
The fields from the file, that are output for each record. If the first field listed begins with ^, then the list of fields that
follows will NOT be output.
BUGS
Be warned that the author has only a shallow understanding of the dpkg packaging system, so there are probably tons of bugs in this pro-
gram.
This program comes with no warranties. If running this program causes fire and brimstone to rain down upon the earth, you will be on your
own.
This program accesses the dpkg database directly in places, querying for data that cannot be gotten via dpkg.
AUTHOR
Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
DEBIAN Debian Utilities DPKG-AWK(1)