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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All;
I have an input file 'abc.txt' with below text:
512345977,213458,100021
512345978,213454,100031
512345979,213452,100051
512345980,213455,100061
512345981,213456,100071
512345982,213456,100091
512345983,213457,100041
512345984,213451,100011
I need to paste the first field... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: mystition
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
awk '/^>/{id=$0;next}length>=7 { print id, "\n"$0}' Test.txt
Can I use substr to achieve the same task?
Thanks! (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Xterra
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a command like this:
listdb ID923 -l |gawk '{if (substr($0,37,1)==1 && NR == 3)print "YES" else if (substr ($0,37,1)==0 && NR == 3) print "NO"}'
This syntax doesn't work. But I was able to get this to work:
listdb ID923 -l |gawk '{if (substr($0,37,1)==1 && NR == 3)print "YES"}'
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: newbie2010
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have a fixed-width datafile from which i need to extract value/string starting from some position to the specified length in each of the lines.
awk '{print substr($0,x,y)}' datafile --- is working fine
but
awk 'BEGIN{a=0}{a=substr($0,x,y);print $a}' datafile ---is giving... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: loggedin.ksh
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
can anybody explain this code?
thanks in advance..:) (6 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm writing a shell script in which I need to be able to pull a portion of the file name out. I'm testing with the following code:
x="O1164885.DAT"
y=`ls -ltr *${x}|awk '{print substr($0,3)}'`
echo ${x}|awk '{print substr($0,3)}'
echo "y="$y
I can echo it to the screen just fine but I... (3 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a long string like,
aabab|bcbcbcbbc|defgh|paswd123 dedededede|efef|ghijklmn|paswd234 ghghghghgh|ijijii|klllkkk|paswd345 lmlmlmmm|nononononn|opopopopp|paswd456
This string is devided into one space between substrings. This substrings are,
aabab|bcbcbcbbc|defgh|paswd123... (6 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
My input file is
41;2;xxxx;yyyyy....
41;2;xxxx;yyyyy....
41;2;xxxx;yyyyy....
..
..
I need to change the second field value from 2 to 1. i.e.,
41;1;xxxx;yyyyy....
41;1;xxxx;yyyyy....
41;1;xxxx;yyyyy....
..
..
Thanks in advance. (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: deepakwins
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
What is the more efficient way to do this (awk only and default FS) ?
$ echo "jefe@alm"|awk '{pos = index($0, "@");printf ("USER: %s\n",substr ($0,1,pos-1))}'
USER: jefe
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Here is my code
let x=10 #or any other calculated value done here
`echo $sol | awk '{print substr($0,1,(x-3))}'`
Question.
I am able to use the variable x in beginning at character "1"
but I get nothing when using it for the next n characters.
Should I be able to... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: smacleod
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