awk and redirecting to files

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Redirecting output using if with awk

I have this line were I am selecting some fields from one file and creating a new file for the selected data. awk -F "\"*,\"*" '{print $1"," $2}' folderone/list.txt > folderone/qlist.txt This works, but then from this new file I want it to create a new file where it separates data: $2 >5 it...

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Awk: Print Error While Redirecting output in multiple Files

Hi, I have a following code in which I am unable to redirect to multiple files. Can anybody please help with some corrections awk -F, '{ if ( substr($1,26,2)=="02" && substr($1,184,14)=="MTSCC_VALFIRST") { array1++ array2++ array3++ } else if (substr($1,26,2)=="03" &&...

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awk script issue redirecting to multiple files after matching pattern

Hi All I am having one awk and sed requirement for the below problem. I tried multiple options in my sed or awk and right output is not coming out. Problem Description ############################################################### I am having a big file say file having repeated...

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redirecting output using if-then-else in awk

I am trying to filter records based on number of "|", delimiter in my application. If number of "|" is greater than 14 its a bad record, else its a good record. I have to redirect output to two different files based on the if-then-else evaluation in AWK. if number of �|� in file_0 > 14 ...

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Redirecting to different output files with awk.

Well, it didn't take me long to get stumped again. I assure you that I'm not mentally deficient, just new to scripting. So, here's the gist. I want to redirect output from awk based off of which branch of an if-else statement under which it falls. #!/bin/bash #some variables...

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Printing and redirecting files

Hello, I am curious. If I have a line of code run in bash VAR=" It is a nice shiny day " and I would like to be able to print this with the newlines in tact, is there a way? Are the newlines actually there but stripped by echo $VAR or echo -e $VAR? In Python you can:>>>VAR = """...

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Redirecting columns from multiple files

Hi all, I have two years worth of daily files (e.g. 090107.dat) and I'd like to write a BASH script to extract the same 2 columns from each of these files and copy them all to one separate file. Could anyone please point me in the right direction as I'm new to shell scripting? It would...

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Confused about redirecting output from awk.

I have a simple script written in awk whose purpose is to go through some php files and replace some strings. Naturally, I want the changes to be written out to the files. The script looks generally as follows: { gsub(/'replacethis'/, "with this"); # a bunch of these print $0 > FILENAME }...

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Redirecting list of files to cp

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using redirecting from awk

Well this is what im doing, im writing a script that you pass 3 variables into. Filename, delimiter or "FS in AWK", and a string of columbs you want to keep 1,2,4,5... Just modifing a data file and rewriting with a different extension. My problem atm is using awk to seperate the "columb String"...

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