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Thanks a lot, Yoda, can you explain the syntax to me? I don't want to die stupid.

Hi, hope you can help me... It seems like a straightforward problem, but I haven't had any success so far using my basic scripting and awk "skills":

I need to find a pattern /VEL/ in an input file...

You guys are awesome, thanks all around... Double entries were not desired, I just left the issue out because I didn't want to cause confusion.

DISTCUT=3.5 by the way, a geometric hydrogen...

Hey, not too good at this, so I only managed a clumsy and SLOW solution to my problem that needs a drastic speed up. Any ideas how I write the following in awk only?

Code is supposed to do......

great idea bartus, thanks... this way it works generally for me!

paste file1 file2 | awk -v cut1="$var1" -v cut2="$var2" '{for (i=1;i<=NF/2;i++){if($i<cut1&&$(i+NF/2)>cut2){print...

cutoffs:
cut1=1.00000
cut2=5.00000file1
3.75289 3.72466 3.72257
3.45011 3.43072 3.44495
3.27445 3.25306 3.27761
3.0973 3.06597 3.09548
2.76982 0.55555 2.76169
2.83836 2.80111 2.81722
2.71083...

Hello guys,
I have little to no experience working with two files in awk and hope you can help me with a problem that may be easy for you to solve...

awk -v cut1="$var1" -v cut2="$var2"...

Of course, thank you... I guess I need to go home and get some sleep ;)

awk -v X0="$X0" -v Y0="$Y0" -v Z0="$Z0" 'BEGIN{ FIELDWIDTHS = "5 3 7 5 8 8 8" }{if ($7 != "")...

Hello guys,
I have a problem concerning the formatting when performing calculations with variables passed to awk and using fieldwidth definitions and printf.

I have the following code:
awk...

You're right, it doesn't jive... What I meant to say is "the cutoff value is successively incremented by the cutoff value". Sorry about that. I got it though, thanks to your pointers...

awk...

I have another question I am stuck at :wall:

I have a text file with two columns, like so...

2 0.0627279
3 0.0794451
4 0.108705
5 0.137739
6 0.190394
7 0.217407
8 0.241764
9 0.344458
10...

Hey guys, maybe you can help me with this...

I want to read input.dat line by line, while doing a simple calculation between the second column value of the current line and the second column value...

thanks a bunch! :)

Hey guys, I have a column that consists of string and integer values without a distinctive deliminator, looking like this...

7ASA
14LAL
245FOO
656MOM
87577DAD
...

I want to split the...

I know my code is clumsy. I'm a novice and need stuff done quickly and in a practical way. Thanks a lot for the heads up. The awk solution is wonderful. :b:

(Both solutions work, actually)

#!/bin/bash

count=1
while read line
do
if (($count > 4)); then
awk -v var1="$count" '{printf "%3s%8s%11s%11s%11s\n",var1,$2,$3,$4,$5}'
else
echo $line
fi...

@panyam: yes, basically

@yazu: thanks, this will probably do it!

I have problems adapting your solution to my problem though. What does this part do?

{ s = s $0 "\n"; getline }

In fact...

Of course... The text file looks something like this:

1 ABC
1 ABC
1 ABC
2 SOL
2 SOL
2 SOL
5 ABC
5 ABC
5 ABC
5 ABC
2 SOL
2 SOL
2 SOL
3 SOL
3 SOL
3 SOL

Hello everybody,
I'm trying to count the number of consecutive lines in a text file which have two distinctive column field values. These lines may appear in several line blocks within the file, but...

I need to make my sloppy, existing code (non awk) more efficient and I seem to be terrible with awk :wall:

I've tried around quite a bit, maybe you guys can conjure up a quick solution...
...

This was extremely helpful and will certainly improve my scripting attemps in the future. Thanks a bunch.

Just for the sake of some other rookie searching on the same issue, this is the code that...

Hello everybody,
I'm still slowly treading my way into bash scripting (without any prior programming experience) and hence my code is mostly what some might call "creative" if they meant well :D
...

Thanks a bunch zaxxon

Hello everybody,
I'm new to bash scripting (and scripting in general) but I'm making decent progress in the hands-on solutions I need...
I've encountered a problem that seemed very simple to me at...