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# 1  
Old 01-19-2012
Question editing line in text file adding number to value in file
I have a text file that has data like:

Code:
Data    "12345#22"
Fred
ID 12345
Age 45
Wilma
Dino
Data  "123#22"
Tarzan
ID 123
Age 33
Jane

I need to figure out a way of adding 1,000,000 to the specific lines (always same format) in the file, so it becomes:

Code:
Data    "1012345#22"
Fred
ID 1012345
Age 45
Wilma
Dino
Data  "1000123#22"
Tarzan
ID 1000123
Age 33
Jane

Of course this data is completely made up, but the principal is the same. One number is "VVVV#22" or "VVVVV#22" (ie, number is always after a single quote and before a # on a line called Data), and the other number is always the second word on an ID line. (both number the same in each stanza)

I can prepend the number, but can't figure out how to treat it as a number and add a value to it and replace...

Thanks in advance for any help...
# 2  
Old 01-19-2012
Hi,

You can use the below script.

Code:
y=1
while read line
do
fld1=`echo $line |cut -d' ' -f1|tr -d ' '`
if [ "$fld1" = 'Data' ]; then
   fld2=`echo $line|cut -d'"' -f2|cut -d'#' -f1|tr -d ' '`
   fld3=`expr $fld2 + 1000000`
   sed -i "$y s/$fld2/$fld3/" test1
elif [ "$fld1" = 'ID' ]; then
   fld2=`echo $line|cut -d' ' -f2|tr -d ' '`
   fld3=`expr $fld2 + 1000000`
   sed -i "$y s/$fld2/$fld3/" test1
fi
y=`expr $y + 1`
done < inputfile
exit 0

Code:
Input file :
 
Data "12345#22"
Fred
ID 12345
Age 45
Wilma
Dino
Data "123#22"
Tarzan
ID 123
Age 33
Jane

Code:
Output file : 
 
Data "1012345#22" 
Fred 
ID 1012345 
Age 45 
Wilma 
Dino 
Data "1000123#22" 
Tarzan 
ID 1000123 
Age 33 
Jane

If the final number has to be < 2000000 then you will need to put a check before using 'sed' so that the original value is not updated.

Regards,
RM
Last edited by rmohanty; 01-19-2012 at 10:53 PM..
# 3  
Old 01-20-2012
Code:
awk  '/^Data/{split($2,a,"[#|\"]");$2="\"" a[2]+1000000 "#" a[3] "\""} 
      /^ID/{$2+=1000000}1' infile

# 4  
Old 01-20-2012
Thanks. The AWK line works - as I can put it as a one liner. The only downside is it destroys the 'look' or of the original file. It was:

Code:
Data        "1#15"
  CreateTime           ""
  Id                   1

and is now
Code:
Data "1001#15"
{
  CreateTime           ""
Id 1001

I had to add an extra space, ie, ' Id' as I had Id and xxxId and yyyId in the file and it was changing all 3

Code:
awk '/^Data/{split($2,a,"[#|\"]");$2="\"" a[2]+1000 "#" a[3] "\""}
/ Id/{$2+=1000}1' infile

as SED would just replace, I don't think it would destroy the formatting.

I can do it by making two changes. The first one is easy...add spaces before the \ :
Code:
....{split($2,a,"[#|\"]");$2="       \""....

I can change the second one by piping through SED
Code:
.... | sed -e 's/^Id /  Id                   /g'

but this seems an ugly way of doing it
Last edited by say170; 01-20-2012 at 07:19 AM..
# 5  
Old 01-20-2012
You can preserve formatting like so:

Code:
awk -F '[ \t"#]*' '/ID|Data/{sub($2,$2+1000000)}1' infile

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 01-20-2012 at 08:42 AM..
# 6  
Old 01-20-2012
That doesn't add to the ID field for me, it does to the data line though. The ID line doesn't have quotes around the value - I think that's why it doesn't work.

This is my data file:

Code:
Data        "1#15"
{
  CreateTime           ""
  Id                   1

# 7  
Old 01-20-2012
No, it is because - different from your sample -, here Id is written with a lowercase d.
Try:
Code:
awk -F '[ \t"#]*' '/Id|Data/{sub($2,$2+1000000)}1' infile
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