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Old 07-05-2012
[Solved] Adding time stamp to file name

I have the awk
Code:
awk -F\* '$1=="ST",$1=="SE"{if($1=="ST"){close(f);f="sample" ++i} ; $1=$1; print>f}' OFS=\| <filename>

How to add the time stamp to the file name mentioned as "sample"

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Last edited by vbe; 07-05-2012 at 08:15 AM..
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Old 07-05-2012
What format should the timestamp follow?
# 3  
Old 07-05-2012
Code:
TIMESTAMP=$( date +%m%d%y.%H%M%S )
FILE="${FILE}.${TIMESTAMP}"

# 4  
Old 07-05-2012
I want the time format as
Code:
date +%m%d%y%H%M%S.

I tried the suggested way, but when doing it I got the files generated as
Code:
${FILE}.${TIMESTAMP}3
${FILE}.${TIMESTAMP}2
${FILE}.${TIMESTAMP}1


Last edited by vbe; 07-05-2012 at 11:37 AM.. Reason: code tags please!
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Old 07-05-2012
Try:
Code:
awk -F\* -vt=`date +%m%d%y%H%M%S` '$1=="ST",$1=="SE"{if($1=="ST"){close(f);f="sample"t"" ++i} ; $1=$1; print>f}' OFS=\| <filename>

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Old 07-05-2012
Wonderful, It worked !!!

Thanks a ton.
# 7  
Old 07-20-2012
Hi,

I have the code below as

Code:
 
 
cat <filename> | tr '~' '\n' | sed '/^$/ d' | sed "s/*/|/g" > <filename>
awk -F\| -vt=`date +%m%d%y%H%M%S%s` '$1=="ST",$1=="SE"{if($1=="ST"){close(f);f="214_edifile_"t"" ++i} ; $1=$1; print>f}' OFS=\| <filename>

This script works fine if the input file is a smaller size. Actually it replaces some characters and extracts the records starting from ST to SE and writes that in a seperate file. But when trying input file of bigger size the script is giving only partial output.

Can you tell me what could be the reason, is there any size limit of input file in UNIX OS please suggest to resolve.
 
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