Interestingly the next point in my script where a file had to be manipulated exhibited the same problem - this file only had one field but the script saw just one entry eventhough there are many lines... I found that adding:
Hi,
I'm using gawk to read a text file and count the sentences.
I want to use a record separator of a period, exclamation mark and a question mark.
The problem is that the file contains words like "Mr. Smith" so the periods in the appellation are tripping my record separator.
This is my... (12 Replies)
I am using the following code to modify all odd lines in a file:
awk 'NR % 2 { print } !(NR % 2)' FWD-1.fas | cut -c5-600
I however, do not want cut to affect the odd lines
Any help? (3 Replies)
Hello to all,
Please some help on this. I have the file in format as below.
How can I set the record separator as the string below in red
"No. Time Source Destination Protocol Length Info"
I've tried code below but it doesn't seem to... (6 Replies)
How do I use single quotes as record separator in awk?
I just couldn't figure that out. I know how to use single quotes as field separator, and double quotes as both field and record separator ... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a bunch of records within a directory where each one has this form:
(example file1)
1 2 50 90 80 90 43512 98 0909 79869 -9 7878 33222 8787 9090 89898 7878 8989 7878 6767 89 89 78676 9898 000 7878 5656 5454 5454
and i want for all of these files to be... (3 Replies)
HI all,
i have the source file like below,
05 BL-FEE-CYC-CDE PIC S9(03) COMP-3.
05 BL-FEE-ERR-MSG PIC X(00030).
05 BL-FEE-TYPE PIC X(00001).
418181*# 05 ... (7 Replies)
I'm working on a different stage of a project that someone helped me address elsewhere in these threads.
The .docs I'm cycling through look roughly like this:
1 of 26 DOCUMENTS
Copyright 2010 The Age Company Limited
All Rights Reserved
The Age (Melbourne, Australia)
November 27, 2010... (9 Replies)
I have tried to use ">" as record separator, but it doesn't work.
I have tried this:
awk BEGIN{RS=">"}'{print $0}' input
output:
awk: BEGIN{RS=>}{print $0}
awk: ^ syntax error
awk BEGIN{RS="\>"}'{print $0}' input
awk: BEGIN{RS=\>}{print $0}
awk: ^ backslash not... (2 Replies)