Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,

I am newbie in unix. Just have some doubts on how to join multiple lines into single line.

I have 1 file with following contents.

R96087641
HostName-kul480My
This is no use any more
%%
E78343970
LocalPath-/app/usr/SG
(Blank in this line)
%%
E73615740
LocalPath-/app/usr/US
Urgent Needed
%%
.....
.....
.....
.....

Each grouping is separated by %%. There are basically 2 kinds of grouping which is HostName and LocalPath. I need to format the content into 2 separate files differentiate by HostName and LocalPath. In the files, the keyword HostName and LocalPath must be removed. Below is the sample of formatted data.

(HostName.txt)
R96087641|kul480My|This is no use any more
.....
.....

(LocalPath.txt)
E78343970|/app/usr/SG|
E73615740|/app/usr/US|Urgent Needed
.....
.....

I have really no idea on how to sort it out. My knowledge on awk also not strong enough to make it.

Hopes someone could help to solve my problem.
Thanks.

nawk -f wh.awk myFile

wh.awk:

Code:

BEGIN {
  FS="-"
  OFS="|"
  FILEhost="HostName.txt"
  FILElocal="LocalPath.txt"
}
/^%%/ { for(i=1;i<=cnt;i++) printf("%s%c", a[i], (i==cnt)?ORS:OFS) > file; cnt=0;next}
{ cnt++ }
/^HostName/ { file=FILEhost; a[cnt]=$2;next}
/^LocalPath/ { file=FILElocal; a[cnt]=$2;next}
{a[cnt]=$0}

Hi Vgersh,

The logic seems working by reading it, neat and understandable. However, i can only test it on Monday. Will let you know the result then.

Btw, if i keen on using awk only, will there be lot diff with nawk?

I am not so sure is nawk working in HP-UX environment not...
Kindly advice.

Hi Vgersh,

Thanks. It works well

Code:

$/="%%\n";
open FH1,"+>HostName.txt";
open FH2,"+>LocalPath.txt";
while(<DATA>){
	my @tmp=split("\n",$_);
	my @t1=split("-",$tmp[1]);
	$tmp[1]=~s/.*-//;
	my $str=join "|",@tmp[0..2];
	if($t1[0] eq "HostName"){
		print FH1 $str."\n";
	}
	else{
		print FH2 $str."\n";
	}
}

__END__
R96087641
HostName-kul480My
This is no use any more
%%
E78343970
LocalPath-/app/usr/SG
(Blank in this line)
%%
E73615740
LocalPath-/app/usr/US
Urgent Needed
%%