\| is a GNU extension. There is no alternation operator in standard basic regular expression grammar. Outside of GNU (and Busybox, probably, since they explicitly model their implementation on GNU tools), I don't believe that will work anywhere.
Portable equivalents:
... and ...
Regards,
Alister
Hello friends,
I have written a script and i need to add some part into it so that i could print out more results depending on more conditions,
This is the core part of the script which does the actual work:
echo "$j" && nawk -v stat=$2 'NR==FNR &&... (1 Reply)
I have the following awk one-liner I came up with last night to gather some data. and it works pretty well (apologies, I'm quite new with awk, and don't know how to format this pretty-printed). You can see the output with it.
awk '{if ($8 == 41015 && $21 == "requests") arr+=$20;if ($8 == 41015... (3 Replies)
Given:
1,2,whatever,a,940,sot
how can i print from one particular field to the end of line?
awk -F"," '{print $2 - endofline}'
the delimiter just happens to be a comma "," in this case. in other cases, it could be hypens:
1---2---whatever---a---940---sot (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I have around 900 Select Sql's which I would like to run in an awk script and print the output of those sql's in an txt file.
Can you anyone pls let me know how do I do it and execute the awk script? Thanks. (4 Replies)
Thanks for giving your time and effort to answer questions and helping newbies like me understand awk.
I have a huge file, millions of lines, so perl takes quite a bit of time, I'd like to convert these perl one liners to awk.
Basically I'd like all lines with ISA sandwiched between... (9 Replies)
I would like to print result of multiple search pattern invoked from an one liner. The code looks like this but won't work
gawk -F '{{if ($0 ~ /pattern1/) pat1=$1 && if ($0 ~ /pattern2/) pat2=$2} ; print pat1, pat2}'
Can anybody help getting the right code? (10 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to debug an old script and have found the problem lies within this function:
isIdoc() { # validate the file type
fileType=`file $1 | awk '{print $NF}'`
&& echo 0 || echo 1
}
My question is, how can I determine what is in the variable $fileType ? The program is... (1 Reply)
suppose i have one file
file A
18
24
30
35
38
45
55
Another file file B
08_46 A 16 V -0.36 0.23 E : 1.41
08_46 A 17 D -1.04 0.22 E : 0.84
08_46 A 18 Q -0.49 0.12 E : 0.06
08_46 A 19 G 0.50 0.14 E : 0.05
08_46 A 20 V ... (5 Replies)
Hello
I wrote simple one liner that take RunTime *.exe and link them to the output of the compilation output:
find ~/DevEnv/. -name "*.exe" | xargs ls -l | awk '{ x=split($9,a,"/"); print "ln -s " $9 " "a}'
and it gives me the desire output , but how can I execute this ln command on every... (1 Reply)