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Array printing and if statement
I'm stuck on a problem of array printing and a "if" condition . I tried different combinations with the 'for' loop but the result always returns empty. Also when I try to include the "else" statement, I invariably get an "illegal instruction" message. Could you help me on this? --- SAMPLE ---... -
List output from HTML pages
Hello everyone, The extract below is the result of a pipe passed through sed with which I clean white space from HTML pages. /* --- SAMPLE --- */ ... <a href='/books/filebooks_gen_cbooks=41386.html'> <b>L'école de la chair</b></a> (Nikutai No Gakka)<br /> <span class=\"fs11\"> 1963<br />... -
Split File
Hello All, I would like to split a big "pipe" delimited file in as many files as there are columns. The number of columns being undefined, how to make so that each column header acts as the output file name? Sample IN header1|header2|...|headern 11111|txt1|...|alphanum_n1... -
Insert data with values located n line further
Hello everyone; I have plenty of very large (>60Mo) pseudo-xml files which looks as follows: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> ... more lines here </ObjectStyle> <Object type="Field" flags="67108864" flags="67108864"> <Style>128</Style> <Bounds top=" 24" left="138" bottom=" 38"... -
Append next line
Hello, I'm trying to append a line to previous if it doesn't begin with a equal sign Input ... =POUILLY SUR VINGEANNE =2006 0628 59.9370-111 25.619 =45370 ... Expected Output: ... =POUILLY SUR VINGEANNE =2006|0628|59.9370-111|25.619 =45370 What I've tried so far: awk '/^=/ {if (line) print... -
Reduce script/calls
Hi all, Just wondering if there's a way to write the following command in just one awk call: #!/bin/sh ... awk '{printf "%s" (NR%5 ? "\t" : "\n"),$0}' | awk 'BEGIN{OFS="\t"} {print "'"$1"'", "'"$2"'", $2, $1, $3, $4, $5, "'"`date +%d\/%m\/%Y\ %H:%M:%S`"'", ""}' ... stdout= 27/07/07 92410... -
joining lines conditionally
Hi All, I'm quite new to awk... I did search on this forum but did not find a solution to my problem.. The problem i am having is how to write this in awk (or sed ): - If a line does not end with a parenthese '(', join every following line till one begining with a ')'- ---------- Input ...
