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# 1  
Old 11-19-2010
Find and replace blank in the last field
Hi all,

I have a huge file and I need to get ride of the fields 6-11 and replace the blanks in field 5 with a missing value(99999).

Code:
159,93848,5354,343,67898,45,677,5443,434,5545,45
677,45545,3522,244,
554,54344,3342,456,
344,43443,2344,444,23477
234,24446,4545,344,34576,65,424,3332,434,4324,34
546,78432,2345,566,
545,45666,8453,344,34455
434,34432,4244,298,

I'd like to have this
Code:
159,93848,5354,343,67898
677,45545,3522,244,99999
554,54344,3342,456,99999
344,43443,2344,444,23477
234,24446,4545,344,34576
546,78432,2345,566,99999
545,45666,8453,344,34455
434,34432,4244,298,99999

For the first part, I'm using the following code. I know it's not the best code for doing this, but it just does what I need.
Code:
 awk -F\,  '{print $1,$2,$3,$4,$5}'  input

Now, the blanks are in the last field and I am not able to replace them with missing values using sed. I do appreciate your help on this.
Code:
999 93848 5354 343 67898
677 45545 3522 244
554 54344 3342 456
344 43443 2344 444 23477
234 24446 4545 344 34576
546 78432 2345 566
545 45666 8453 344 34455
434 34432 4244 298

# 2  
Old 11-19-2010
modified your coode
Code:
awk -F\,  '{if($5==""){$5=99999};print $1,$2,$3,$4,$5}'  inputfile

# 3  
Old 11-19-2010
Thank you very much pravin27.

It's working very well, however it's creating a missing value in the last row too. How can I get ride of this?
Code:
999 93848 5354 343 67898
677 45545 3522 244 99999
554 54344 3342 456 99999
344 43443 2344 444 23477
234 24446 4545 344 34576
546 78432 2345 566 99999
545 45666 8453 344 34455
434 34432 4244 298 99999
    99999

# 4  
Old 11-19-2010
i think it is because of blank lines .
try like this if u can delete blank lines before processing the data.

Code:
sed '/^$/d' infile | awk -F\,  '{if($5==""){$5=99999};print $1,$2,$3,$4,$5}'

# 5  
Old 11-19-2010
or
you can do like this,
Code:
 awk -F\,  '$1>0{if($5==""){$5=99999};print $1,$2,$3,$4,$5}' inputfile

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# 6  
Old 11-19-2010
Thanks so much pravin27
That's great. It's perfectly working now. Smilie

I also tested the code by dragon.1431
It's adding the missing values to the end of all rows.
# 7  
Old 11-19-2010
IMHO, it should work as you expected.

Code:
$ cat infile
159,93848,5354,343,67898,45,677,5443,434,5545,45
677,45545,3522,244,
554,54344,3342,456,
344,43443,2344,444,23477
234,24446,4545,344,34576,65,424,3332,434,4324,34
546,78432,2345,566,
545,45666,8453,344,34455
434,34432,4244,298,
                                    

Last,45666,123,344,One

code used:
Code:
sed '/^$/d' infile | awk -F\,  '{if($5==""){$5=99999};print $1,$2,$3,$4,$5}

output:
Code:
159 93848 5354 343 67898
677 45545 3522 244 99999
554 54344 3342 456 99999
344 43443 2344 444 23477
234 24446 4545 344 34576
546 78432 2345 566 99999
545 45666 8453 344 34455
434 34432 4244 298 99999
Last 45666 123 344 One

before last data "Last 45666 123 344 One" i had two blank lines and it was deleted in output.
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