Not really... There are a couple of problems here.
The standards don't define the precedence between output redirection and string concatenation in awk print commands. So, although it appears to work on your system, it isn't portable. And, if you write to one string, as in:
you need to close that same string; so:
is a no-op because f has never been opened. So, what you really need is something more like:
Or, more efficiently:
I am trying to use awk to create (in this example) 3 seperate text file from the unique id in $1 in file, if it starts with the pattern aa. The contents of each row is used to populate each text file except for $1 which is not needed. It seems I am close but not quite get there. Thank you :).
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I am using gfortran and want to send .o files in separate directory.
Currently I have the following in a bash script. The .mod files are handled ok, but the .o files are still created in the same directory as the source code
fsrc="newunit.f08 math.f08 tString.f08 prout.f08 prary.f08... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a situation to compare one file, say file1.txt with a set of files in directory.The directory contains more than 100 files.
To be more precise, the requirement is to compare the first field of file1.txt with the first field in all the files in the directory.The files in the... (10 Replies)
Howdy Folks,
I have a list that looks like this:
(file2.txt)
AAA
BBB
CCC
DDD
and there are 24 of these short words.
I am matching these patterns to another file with 755795 lines (file1.txt).
I have this code for matching:
awk -v f2=file2.txt '
BEGIN {
while(... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am using the awk command to replace ',' by '\t' (tabs) in a csv file. I would like to apply this to all .csv files in a directory and create .txt files with the tabs.
How would I do this in a script?
I have the following script called "csvtabs":
awk 'BEGIN {
FS... (4 Replies)
hai all
I am new to the world of shell scripting
I wanted to extract two columns from multiple files say around 25 files
and i wanted to get the separate outfile for each input file
tired using the following command to extract two columns from 25 files
awk... (2 Replies)
For example:
File 1:
abc def ghi
jkl mno pqr
File 2:
stu vwx yza
bcd efg hij
klm nop qrs
I want the reult to be:
abc def ghistu vwx yza
jkl mno pqrbcd efg hij
klm nop qrs (4 Replies)
I have a 500 MB XML file from a FileMaker database export, it's formatted horribly (no line breaks at all). The node structure is basically
<FMPXMLRESULT>
<METADATA>
<FIELD att="............." id="..."/>
</METADATA>
<RESULTSET FOUND="1763457">
<ROW att="....." etc="....">
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I am wondering if anyone has any idea how to use an awk within awk to read files and find a match which adds to count.
Say I am searching how many times the word crap appears in each files within a directory. How would i do that from the command prompt ...
thanks (6 Replies)