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Dear All,

I am in the beginning stage of learning shell scripting and preparing shell script on my own now.

I would like to get help from fellow mates here.

As I am trying to take O/P with space included from I/P table.

Kindly guide me to align given I/P table as Expected O/P.


Example:
I/P:

Code:

 4444  7777  0000
1111    3333    5555
aaaa    bbbb    cccc     dddd     eeee
xxxx    yyyy    zzzzz    bbbb    mmm
9999    8888    7777    6666    4444

Expected O/P:

Code:

4444
1111            
aaaa    dddd    eeee
xxxx    bbbb    mmm
9999    6666    4444

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Hi Rudic,

I am not allowed to disclose the data from my current organisation - UST Global Technologies and hence given sample data.
I am working on a script to take output from IBM MQ ffstsummary FDC files.
I have almost completed the script, but alignment problem still says with awk output.
I have attached exact sample data with this post that I am trying to achieve.

Given below code which created for my give task.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
dspmq | cut -d ")" -f1 | cut -d "(" -f2 > qmgr.txt
cat qmgr.txt | while read line
do
STATUS=`dspmq | grep $line | awk '{print $2}' | cut -d "(" -f2 | cut -d ")" -f1`
if [[  $STATUS == "Running" ]]
then
cd /var/mqm/errors
ffstsummary | awk '{print $1,$2,$4}' > "$line"_FDC_RECORD.txt
#mailx -s "$line"_FDC_RECORD.txt (mailID) < "$line"_FDC_RECORD.txt
fi
done

Moderator's Comments:

Seriously: Please use CODE tags as required by forum rules!

Which of the samples should we use for guessing your requirement? With the new one, it would be like "Remove ALL fields except 1, 2, and 4 RECOGNIZING some fields are empty"? How to detect empty fields? Or would that be every other field beyond field 2? What be the field separator in the last sample?

Kindly consider my attached sample data with I/P , O/P & expected O/P.
Though vi editor I can move my cursor with each alphabet space with that complete space for field 2 and 4 under row 1 & 2.

Hi Raja007. Could you please answer RudiC's questions?