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reborg,

thanks for the reply. But it's a bit hard for me to follow the code. Is it possible to give me a brief explaination?

thanks

Forgot to mention that all the fields in each line separated by "|".

The input file format will look like this:

00|AA|BB|CC|DD|
01|EE|FF|GG|
02|HH|KK|LL|
00|AA|BB|CC|DD|
01|...
02|...

And all I need to do is to validate if the number of fields for each line...

the part that take the most of the time is the following code.


function line_count
{
COUNT=`echo $1 | awk -F\| '{print NF}'`
if [ "$COUNT" != "$2" ]
then
...

matrixmadhan,

I don't have the script right here with me, but I can brief you how my script looks like.


#starts with couple of constants for the file
function1 ...
...

Hi all,

I wrote this shell script to validate filed numbers for input file. But it take forever to complete validation on a file. The average speed is like 9mins/MB.

Can anyone...

:)
Got it. Cheers

since the awk can't handle 100+ fields. what do I use to get one of the field value, say field 45. Currently I am using echo $1|awk -F\| '{print $45}' .

And I don't know why I can't get gawk...

Thanks Ygor, that solves the problem.

Hi all,

New here and new to shell as well.
Currently I have a problem when use echo $1 | awk -F\| '{print NF}' to get the NF of input string separated by "|". There's input contains...