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Thanx for the help

How can I suppress a error message being given by awk command in bash shell?

Thank you for the valuable input and showing patience.

Do we have replace function in unix? Since I want to replace the commas in an array to blank spaces so that the output file can be a csv.

Thanks It's working fine.

But had few queries regarding the changes
What is the else part for?

else
{
f[$9]=f[$9]+1;
y=substr($9,1)"::"substr(f[$9],1);
a[y]=$1;...

Yes this is correct.

Did you make any changes in the code?

0000003 in "F7852A81-1BE0-42D6-83E1-8DAADF816CEC-0000003"
is just an extra data attached. We need not focus on this. We just have to consider first 36 characters. Whatever they may be

These are few lines from the file
2012-05-09 10:28:47.981 | SYNC | 00041 | DEBUG | Customer_Receive Payment | Task | Task started on a component |...

The code works fine when I run it on small chunks of the file
but when running the complete file it gives different output.

Do you have any idea of this type of behavior?

Thanx for your help

Thanks for the valuable input.
But i have few queries...
I tried running it again but its not giving output for few set of lines which are part of a complete big file.

and also the condition for...

Thanks for your valuable input.It helped a lot.

But it is not working with few of the lines in the file.
as
2012-05-09 10:34:15.281 | SYNC | 00041 | DEBUG | EUO_Header Enrichment | Task ...

The expected output is
jms:Send to Remit Splits B678C56D-96DA-4FFC-B40E-9A032A2EB12E 400
--this 400 is result of((10:29:30.246)-(10:29:29.846))

filesystem:Reports_5 ...

I am facing another issue
I have a file:
2012-05-09 10:29:29.846 | SYNC | 00041 | DEBUG | Customer_Receive Payment | Task | Task started on a component |...

if I have to check more than one word like "Task started" or "Exchange started"
so will this code work??
awk -v var4="$var2" -v var5="$var3" -F\| '{gsub(" ","",$7)} ($7=="Taskstarted" ||...

this is the sample input

2012-05-09 10:28:47.942 | SYNC | 00040 | INFO | Customer_Receive Payment | Task | Task started |...

Its not working.It's not giving any output neither any error

I was trying the same thing with awk as I studied about it somewhere but was facing some issues so posted here

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I tried the command
awk -v var4=$var2 -v var5=$var3 -F\| '$7~/Task started/ && $8~var4 && $9~var5 {print $0}' file.txt >> file1.txt


$var3 has value
xengine:CERR to ECR CF


it displays...

Thanks for the help
if i don't know the value of var1 then will this command work?
awk -v var1 -F\| '$7~/Task started/ && $9~var3 {print $0}' input.txt >> file1.txt

Hi itkamaraj.
I didn't get you command. Can you please explain it? and I don't know what all are the values in variable since I am fetching values from array

awk -v var1="TEST" -F\| '$7~/Task...

Thanks balajesuri the first command worked for me.

If i have to add more than one condition then what is the syntax?
I need to match values stored in my variables(var1,var2) along with this Task...

I have a file seperated by pipe(|) operator
I want to fetch lines from the file having the word "Task started" in 7th column
awk -F"[|]" '{if($7 == "Task started") print $0}' file.txt

But this...

The file remittance.txt has proper values
but where as the file outlatest1.txt has the message
[CODE]Unable to initialize device PRN[/CODE

It will create outlatest1.txt with the desired output

No idea where the PRN error went.Beacuse when I tried running it the error message changed

Tried running the script again.
Now the error message being shown is
awk: fatal : cannot open the file outlatest1.txt
for reading (No such file or directory)


the complete script i have...

I tried running the script but it is giving error
Unable to initialize device PRN
What does this mean??