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Old 12-08-2013
awk read in file1, gsub in file2, print to file3
I'm trying to use awk to do the following. I have file1 with many lines, each containing 5 fields describing an individual set. I have file2 which is a template config file with variable space holders to be replaced by the values in file1. I would like to substitute each set of values in file1 with the variable place holders in file2 and then print to a unique file3 for each row in file1:
file1
Code:
sample1 300 150 100 23
sample2 320 150 90 20
sample3 340 160 95 21

file2
...
Code:
<general>
execute=var1
range=var2
sub=var3
mu=var4
sigma=var5
</general>

...

file3.1
...
<general>
Code:
execute=sample1
range=300
sub=150
mu=100
sigma=23

</general>
...

and I would end up with file3.2 and file3.3 as well.

I am close with awk
Code:
'NR==FNR{a1=$1; a2=$2; a3=$3; next} {gsub(/var1/,a1); gsub(/var2/,a2); gsub(/var3/,a3)}1' file1 file2

But it only prints out to stdout with the last record values replaced.


Thanks for any help!
Last edited by jim mcnamara; 12-08-2013 at 07:53 PM..
# 2  
Old 12-08-2013
Here is an awk approach:
Code:
awk '
        NR == FNR {
                A[++c] = $0
                next
        }
        {
                f = "file3." ++k
                print A[1] > f
                for ( i = 1; i <= NF; i++ )
                {
                                sub ( /=.*/, "="$i, A[i+1] )
                                print A[i+1] > f
                }
                print A[c] > f
                close(f)
        }
' file2 file1

# 3  
Old 12-17-2013
Thank you for your quick response and my apologies for taking so long to do the same! Your code works just as advertised for my example, but I didn't give a good explanation. I needed to expand the file2 context. Here that is:
Code:
<general>
type=all
execute=var1
num_threads=8
</general>

<detection>
split=1
window=var2
step=var3
</detection>

<filter>
filter=1
order=1
final_score_threshold=0.4
mu_length=var4
sigma_length=var5
</filter>

<colorcode>
grey = 2,2
green = 5,5
</colorcode>


Inserting var1-var5 was the best option I could think of as place holders in the template file, but whatever works.

Thanks again!
Last edited by Franklin52; 12-18-2013 at 03:26 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
# 4  
Old 12-17-2013
Please always use code tags for posting code fragments or data samples.

Try this awk program:
Code:
awk '
        NR == FNR {
                A[++c] = $0
                next
        }
        {
                for ( i = 1; i <= NF; i++ )
                {
                        while ( ++j <= c )
                        {
                                if ( A[j] ~ /var/ )
                                {
                                        t = A[j]
                                        sub ( /=.*/, "="$i, t )
                                        print t
                                        ++i
                                }
                                else
                                {
                                        print A[j]
                                }
                        }
                }
                j = 0
        }
' file2 file1

# 5  
Old 12-17-2013
Beautiful, that did the trick! Thanks!!

Code:
awk

# 6  
Old 12-18-2013
Given your var n are found in ascending order in file2, you can avoid scanning through them for every single output line:
Code:
awk     'NR==FNR        {T[++MAX]=$0; next}
                        {vi=1; Ln=0; FN="file3."FNR
                         while (++Ln < MAX)
                          if (match (T[Ln], "var"vi)) {
                                  print substr (T[Ln], 1, RSTART-1) $vi > FN
                                  vi++                } 
                             else print T[Ln] > FN 
                         close (FN)
                        }
        ' file2 file1

# 7  
Old 01-02-2014
Thanks RudiC, works like a charm. Happy New Year!
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