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Old 10-24-2012
Putting values into order in a field using awk
Hi,

I am using UBUNTU 12.04.

I have a dataset as follows:

Code:
Column#1 Column#2 Column#3 .... Column#50
                     1             154878 
                     1             145145
                     2             189565 
                     2             454121
                     .                     .
                     .                     .
                     .                    .
                   22              124579

My questions:
1. I want to divide all the values in column#3 by 1000000 and print all the file. I know doing it by writing #awk'{print $1,$2,$3/1000000,$4....$50}' but as it takes too much time, I wanted to see whether there is any more efficient way?

2. I want to order all the values in column#3 according to column#2, that is first it puts all the values in order for all 1s in column 2, then do it for all the 2s and so on. So, the output looks like this:
Code:
Column#1 Column#2 Column#3 .... Column#50
                     1             145145
                     1             154878 
                     2             145412
                     2             189565 
                                 
                     .                     .
                     .                     .
                     .                    .
                   22              124579

Thank you very much.
Last edited by radoulov; 10-25-2012 at 04:54 AM..
# 2  
Old 10-24-2012
try:
Code:
awk '{$3/=1000000; print}' infile | sort -n

Last edited by rdrtx1; 10-24-2012 at 02:06 PM..
# 3  
Old 10-24-2012
OR

Code:
awk '{$3/=1000000}1' infile | sort -n

# 4  
Old 10-25-2012
Thank you, although it doesn't sort the third column.

Using this command, how I can keep the spacing between my fields? I have used this command but it doesn' work properly.

Code:
#awk 'BEGIN{OFS=ORS=""}{$3/=1000000 print\n"}' infile


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# 5  
Old 10-25-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Homa
Thank you, although it doesn't sort the third column.
use this

Code:
awk '{$3/=1000000}1' infile | sort -nk3

Quote:
Originally Posted by Homa
Using this command, how I can keep the spacing between my fields? I have used this command but it doesn' work properly.

Code:
#awk 'BEGIN{OFS=ORS=""}{$3/=1000000 print\n"}' infile

OFS="" Thats why it is not showing any spacing. Use OFS=" " or by default it is space so no need to define OFS.
And after \n you need " there.
# 6  
Old 10-25-2012
Works perfectly, thanks
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