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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can I specify a default value to a variable in AWK like BASH in one statement using parameter substitution?
BASH example:
argument=${$1-"default if empty"} (BASH)
I know I can do:
argument=$1; sub ( "^$", "default if empty", argument) (AWK)
Mike (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: Michael Stora
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
here's my - not so easy to describe - problem: I want to compare the values of one file (FileA) with a cutoff-value and, if this comparison is true, substitute those values with those in the second file (FileB). However, there are many FileA's (FileA), whereas there is only one FileB. Every... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: waddle
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a variable to be substituted in awk. I am using AIX 5.3. Here is my piece of code:
REPL_DT=`date +'%Y\\\\\\\\\/%m\\\\\\\\\/%d'`
NEW_LINE=$(echo $Line | awk '{sub ($4, '$REPL_DT'); printf "# %-7s %9s %18s\n", $2,$3,$4}')
sed $n" s/.*/$NEW_LINE/" kfile > tmp
mv tmp kfile
Here,... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sugan
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to use AWK to replace dallinux02 to dallinux03 everywhere in the servers.txt file and move it over to "awk2".
Here is my script "awk2.awk":
gsub(/dallinux02/, "dallinux03"); print > "awk2"
I am trying to run this using the following:
$ awk -f awk2.awk... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ora_umair
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I have a file containing lines such as:
(1 104 (16) (17) (18) (102))$
(1 105 (16) (17) (19:21) (102))$
I would like to extract the numbers, only by using awk (or gawk).
I do not want to use "sed" as it is very slow.
For now my solution consists in... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: jolecanard
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi again.
A have a CSV-file in the following format:
2008.09.01,15:17:42,9227096485,9233175320,CTC10,SMS,0901151742098314,Target_MSIS
DN_is_blacklisted
I want to have an awk command that will say:
If the first 3 digits of $4 does not begin with 922 or 923, then make $8 say "Invalid... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: daytripper1021
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to copy field 2 to field 3 for only those records that have the 1st field equal to account
e.g. file
account|123|789|xxx|yyy|zzz|...
account_group|444|555|xxx|yy|zz|....
account|456|901|aaa|bbb|ccc|.....
after running awk script should look like
account|123|123|xxx|yyy|zzz|...... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: klut
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I created a file contains:
create table .....;
create index ....;
create trigger...;
and I want to substitue from my file ; by ;-- from the line where appears create trigger to the end of the file and keep intact the create table step and index in the file.
awk '/CREATE... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mario dionne
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
guys,
I'm trying to 9k lines of the following:
aaa aaa 1 1 1
to
aaa aaa 1 01 1
Im pretty ignorant when it comes to subtituting fields using awk
any help ?
Tony (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: tony3101
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
for the command below, it looks for the 3rd field value matching "P" and printing it.
awk '{if ($3 == "P") print}' file
how would i express this if i use a loop to find more that 1 variable fro a list? this doesn't seem to work...
cat list | while read n
do
awk '{if ($3 == "$n") print}'... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: apalex
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