-F is the option used to set the field separator, that can be a character or a regular expression. This time is a regular expression that's why it is between brackets.
[:,] is the regular expression that means that the separator would be either : or ,
So awk understands each separator for a field like this:
For example, printing the first field,
Printing the second field,
Now we have the chunks of code so we can work with them to achieve what we want,
with this condition we find if the first field matches the string between / /
I do have a flat text file that are divided into blocks. Each block is demimited by '='. I would like to parse certain numbers and letters.
This is the format of the file I have. It has thousands of such blocks
>A B 1, 100
TTTT 100 95
>C D 1, 95
GHJKL
=
>A B 1, 72
GHUJKLO 72 84
>C D... (3 Replies)
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My input text file is this way
Home
friends
friendship meter
Tools
Mirrors
Downloads
My Data
About Us
Help
My own results
BLAT Search Results
ACTIONS QUERY SCORE START END QSIZE IDENTITY CHRO STRAND ... (7 Replies)
I'm totally stumped with how to handle this huge text file I'm trying to deal with. I really need some help!
Here is what is looks like:
ab1ba67c331a3d731396322fad8dd71a3b627f89359827697645c806091c40b9
0.2
812a3c3684310045f1cb3157bf5eebc4379804e98c82b56f3944564e7bf5dab5
0.6
0.6... (3 Replies)
I was trying to parse the text file, which will looks like this
###XYZABC####
############
int = 4
char = 1
float = 1
.
.
############
like this my text file will contains lots of entries and I need to store these entries in the map eg. map.first = int and map.second = 4 same way I... (5 Replies)
Hello
I have a file that contains 10 rows as below:
"ID" "DP"
"ID=GRMZM2G015073_T01" "23.6044288292005"
"ID=GRMZM2G119852_T01" "59.7782287606723"
"ID=GRMZM2G100242_T02" "61.4167813736184"
"ID=GRMZM2G046274_T01" "6.63061838134219"
"ID=GRMZM2G046274_T02" ... (5 Replies)
Hello all,
I have some text formatted as follows
Name: John doe
Company:
Address 1: 7 times the headache
Address 2:
City: my city
State/Province: confusion
Zip/Postalcode: 12345
and I'm trying to figure out how I could extract the data after the colon so that the result would be ... (6 Replies)
Any ideas?
1)loop through text file
2)extract everything between SOL and EOL
3)output files, for example: 123.txt and 124.txt for the file below
So far I have: sed -n "/SOL/,/EOL/{p;/EOL/q;}" file
Here is an example of my text file.
SOL-123.go
something goes here
something goes... (0 Replies)
Hey Guys.I am a newbie on Bash Shell Scripting and Perl.And I have a question about file parsing.
I have a log file which contains reports about a communication device.I need to take some of the reports from the log file.Its hard to explain the issue.but shortly I can say that, the reports has a... (2 Replies)
How would I split a file based on the location of a string, basically I want all entries above the string unix in this example
1
2
3
4
unix
5
6
7
Thanks,
Chuck (3 Replies)