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Old 07-21-2016
Formatting text file
Hi All,

how to format text

Thanks
Last edited by ROCK_PLSQL; 07-21-2016 at 08:43 AM..
# 2  
Old 07-21-2016
It depends on what language you want to use to process this file. Here is a solution which would work for Zsh:

Assuming that one line of the file is stored in the shell variable line, and that you have set the shell options

Code:
setopt re_match_pcre
setopt bash_rematch

the statement

Code:
[[ $line =~ pname\ (.+?)[.].+?=([0-9]*).+?:.([0-9.]*) ]] && echo "${BASH_REMATCH[2]} ,   ${BASH_REMATCH[3]} ,  ${BASH_REMATCH[4]} ,  ${BASH_REMATCH[5]}"

would output the fields in the format you are asking for.

If you prefer to use bash or Bourne Shell (I don't know about ksh), this approach would not work, so you would have to use a different language for this purpose anyway (for instance, Ruby, Perl, awk or Python). I therefore recommend, that you write the whole script in zsh.
# 3  
Old 07-21-2016
Hi ,
Thanks for your code.
We are using ksh.
I have tried below one.I got the error ksh: syntax error: `=~' unexpected

Code:
[[ $line =~ pname\ (.+?)[.].+?=([0-9]*).+?:.([0-9.]*) ]] && echo "${BASH_REMATCH[2]} , ${BASH_REMATCH[3]} , ${BASH_REMATCH[4]} ,  ${BASH_REMATCH[5]}" f1.txt

Thanks
# 4  
Old 07-21-2016
Code:
[akshay@localhost tmp]$ cat file
pname tmgnsr.tpfile_01 analy, lists=8, lines=5900, duration cap: 27.682 seconds
pname tmgnsr.tpfile_01 analy, lists=5, lines=1234, duration cap: 5.12 seconds
pname tmgnsr.sdcfile_01 analy, lists=4, lines=878172, duration cap: 27.145 seconds
pname tmgnsr.sdcfile_02 analy, lists=4, lines=200, duration cap: 34.624 seconds
pname tmgnsr.sdcfile_03 analy, lists=4, lines=200, duration cap: 8.076 seconds
pname tmgnsr.mndfile_01 analy, lists=3, lines=900, duration cap: 37.393 seconds
pname tmgnsr.mndfile_03 analy, lists=1, lines=900, duration cap: 43.077 seconds
pname tmgnsr.mndfile_04 analy, lists=8, lines=5900, duration cap: 16.371 seconds
pname tmgnsr.mndfile_05 analy, lists=1, lines=30, duration cap: 10.967 seconds
pname tmgnsr.mndfile_06 analy, lists=8, lines=900, duration cap: 6.688 seconds
pname tmgnsr.mndfile_abc_01 analy, lists=8, lines=900, duration cap: 22.231 seconds

Code:
[akshay@localhost tmp]$ gawk --version
GNU Awk 3.1.7
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2009 Free Software Foundation.
..
..

Code:
[akshay@localhost tmp]$ gawk  '{match($0,/pname (.+?)[.].*=(.*),.*=(.*),.*:(.*) /,m);print m[1],m[2],m[3],m[4]}' file
tmgnsr 8 5900  27.682
tmgnsr 5 1234  5.12
tmgnsr 4 878172  27.145
tmgnsr 4 200  34.624
tmgnsr 4 200  8.076
tmgnsr 3 900  37.393
tmgnsr 1 900  43.077
tmgnsr 8 5900  16.371
tmgnsr 1 30  10.967
tmgnsr 8 900  6.688
tmgnsr 8 900  22.231

# 5  
Old 07-21-2016
Hi,

gawk is not working.

Code:
ksh: gawk:  not found

Thanks
# 6  
Old 07-21-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by ROCK_PLSQL
Hi,
gawk is not working.
Code:
ksh: gawk:  not found

Thanks
Hello ROCK_PLSQL,

Could you please try following and let me know if this helps you. Also I have written this as per your shown Input_file(data). If you have other conditions or data is not accurate as per your shown Input_file then you will have to post sample data with complete details please.
Code:
awk -F"[ |=|: ]" '{sub(/\..*/,X,$2);print $2 OFS "," OFS $5 OFS $7 OFS $11}'   Input_file

Output will be as follows.
Code:
tmgnsr , 8, 5900, 27.682
tmgnsr , 5, 1234, 5.12
tmgnsr , 4, 878172, 27.145
tmgnsr , 4, 200, 34.624
tmgnsr , 4, 200, 8.076
tmgnsr , 3, 900, 37.393
tmgnsr , 1, 900, 43.077
tmgnsr , 8, 5900, 16.371
tmgnsr , 1, 30, 10.967
tmgnsr , 8, 900, 6.688
tmgnsr , 8, 900, 22.231

Thanks,
R. Singh
This User Gave Thanks to RavinderSingh13 For This Post:
ROCK_PLSQL
# 7  
Old 07-21-2016
Hi,

Thanks for your code.

It's working fine.

Thanks
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