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Cheers.. It worked a charm

Hello ,

I have comma delimited file with over 20 fileds that i need to do some validations on. I have to check if certain fields are null and then write the line containing the null field into a...

No joy there.


When i insert the if condition there, the code doesnt work. Nothing is replaced meaning nothing is matched. C[$2] will have a different meaning since NR is now 2 right?

The code is working now. Thanks a mil for the explanation. It makes a lot of sense now

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I am trying to...

Yep. Solaris bash

I used nawk and am not getting any errors now but the string is not being replaced.

Please see my updated mainfile.csv.

The field 26 has blankspaces and thus will not...

I am getting the following error when i execute the command


awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1

Of course Corona. I am afraid that i didnt have the liberty to post the actual data. That said, i shouldve taken the time to post a better example in order not to waste your time. I will make sure to...

Cheers bipi.

I am looking for a way to map the code to the specific column as there may be other columns with the same characters and i would not like them touched.

For eg:
...

Hi Corona,

No worries. Its great that you are helping us out here.

The issue was that i was using the wrong awk. when i used the /usr/xpg4/bin/awk i got the below error

/usr/xpg4/bin/awk:...

I have a large comma delimited file from which i have to extract a specific column, compare it against a static file and replace the column value with the matching column from the static file.
...

Hi Corona,

I decided to give this a try as it is much more elagant than what i am doing.

On executing the script, i am getting the below error:

bash-3.00$ awk -f vtest.awk datafile > 1234...

It was more of a general question and not specific to my example. I was playing around with the script to make the output better and it occurred me to replace the blanks with ~ and then use it as an...

Windows can read the file but the formatting is uaually lost.

Is there a command like tput that can be used for the printing as opposed to the terminal?

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I am trying to parse a file that looks like the below:


There are thousands of lines like the above and the file is expected to run into hundreds of thousands.

The issue i have is the mixed...

You dont need to export the variables $User and $Pwd. Just executing the parm script will export the variables.

Consider that there are two files:
Parm.sh
User="abc"
Pwd="password"
...

Thanks Alister. I did not know that you could do away with the [] braces. So in effect what i've been doing is tantamount to using a double negative speech.

if echo "$VAR1" | grep 63u >/dev/null ...

Thanks a mil for the replies everyone. I modified my code and the below code works as expected


VAR1="hostname63uf.group"
if [[ `echo "$VAR1" |grep 63u` ]]
then
SUB1="yes"
...

I have changed my shebang to #!/usr/bin/bash and this only increases the errors that i get. I still get the output that i require though



I am trying to see if VAR1 consists of the string 63u...

My shebang is but i still get the same message.

I am trying to execute a script called tfile.sh in a bash shell in solaris and it throws up the following message



I am getting the required output after this message. How do i get the...

I am executing the following script in a bash shell in solaris and it throws up the following message :



But i get the output that i require nevertheless. Can anyone please spot what is...

The menus are efficient and the code is brilliant.. It eliminates 100's of lines..
As for line 58, its the following line
Do maintenance) set -- submenu1 "$*" ;;

I tried the exact code that you posted and it works a charm. But if i modify it as highlighted above, then i am getting the following error.


In addition, if i define the menus your way, they...

Thanks a mil...That looks very interesting.. I will try it as soon as i have access to a terminal.

The only thing is, the number is options in my menus are usually 10 or more and the option is...

Sorry.. I should have been more specific... My OS is solaris.. Shell is bash... Everything in my script is a function.. The script itself is over 2000 lines with every "do something" in the code a...