Search Results

Hi,

as part of a script i have a loop that goes though a set of files.

This loop can take some time, so i'd like to show the user that something is happening by showing them the filename...

I don't have gawk.

In this instance I'm not too bothered about the occasional line being corrupted so i'm just using 'cut -c1-3000' as a workaround.

Thanks again.

Thanks vgersh99, that worked great.

so sprintf can be used to assign strings to vars and in awk you can reassign new strings to the field vars.

maybe I should move this to a different forum,...

vgersh99- wonder if your still around? How would you alter your awk script to process the date if it appeared in the first field of a comma delimited file? i.e

JAN 03 2009...

Hi,

The variables are created from a command substitution which runs an application to describe a table structure.

What i want to do is compare the output from this application to compare the...

Hi I have two variables contining a set of near identical lines, i'd like to list the lines that differ? Prefereably i'd like not to save the variables into a file first.

i.e
var1
tag:val1...

Right this is my last post on this thread!

Taytalus and I crossed threads in cyberspace, so in response to his last posting:

The awk directory dosen't exist, but i tried again with your code...

Thanks to everyone for your help. the nawk command didn't seem to work in my version of awk, but the post by shamrock does.

This is my first time using this forum, and i'm impressed with the level...

That looks like a neat solution.

Unfortunately we don't have nawk on our environment for some reason. (just scanned the server to make sure)

How would you do this with awk?

This awk example would be a little ungainly with 31 parameters, what i've been trying to do is something like this, but build an array and then print out the array to a single line when I reach an...

The simple ones are the best Tytalus!

I need 31 '-' in my paste but, it'll make the code far easier to maintain in the future.

I geuss this only works if i have a consistent set of value's in a...

Sorry for not explaining it clearly. Having looked at your examples I don't think they quite meet what I wanted, but they're not far off. so..

I have a file that contains a set of repeating...

Hi,

I have a file like this:

tag1:value1
tag2:value2
tag3:value3

tag1:value1
tag2:value2
tag3:value3

tag1:value1
tag2:value2
tag3:value3

and what i want is:

value1...