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Hi,

thanks again for giving me the time to find out what to correct...I now run

awk '
$2 != "=" { next }
$1 == "(SERVICE_NAME" && $3 ~ s { print a }
$1 !~ /^\(/ { a=$1 }
' s="pri"...

Hi,
thanks for the awk --- I do not understand how it should work and I get an error I can not correct:

awk: cmd. line:4: error: Unmatched ( or \(: /^(/


And I'd like to search for a service...

Hello,

puzzling me now way to long....so hopefully someone has the answer at hand:
The following shows a sample tnsnames.ora from another topic.
What I want to get as result the tnsnames alias...

hi ahmad.diab,

as you wrote, "line break do not make a difference when writing in correct format". Not wasting too much time I escaped _all_ the linebreaks I've added for readability in "my" awk...

Hi,

thank you! You helped me so much.:rolleyes: This code works as wanted.

But when I tested and added some line breaks here and there to improve readability, the script didnt stop when fileA...

exactly as you wrote.

a sample output of my old awk script (calling sed via system, which is sloow) you see below.

The output consists of 2*n lines.
- odd lines are from fileA. Each odd ouput...

Thank you for your reply. I'll try to explain what I want to do:

fileA is:
000000011111000
000000329100001
000000330100001

the contents indicate line numbers (position 0 to 8) to look for in...

ahmad.diab, I am sorry, but I do not understand how this code works. I need to modify it


awk 'BEGIN { ...set some variables
}

{ # main
# set variables based on substrings of $1, e.g ...

Thank you! This is indeed very cool awk - I am still struggling how it works, how to use it and add additional code.:confused:

How is the performance of this code? My files have about 2,5 million...

Hi,

I wrote an awk script to analyse file A.
I call the script with files A and B. File A has lines like:


000000033100001
000000036100001
000000039100001

The first 9 characters are...