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help with choosing a file
Hi mzak94 I have recreated your script and it worked for me (on RHEL 5.3). Are you getting any error messages that could help? There is only one suggestion I would make in the script and one possible problem I can think of... Suggestion: Instead of if [ "$(ls -A $1)" ]; then use if [ "$(ls...- KierenH
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- Forum: General UNIX discussion
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awk command to delete specific columns
The following awk script should do it: BEGIN{ COLS=6 for(i=2; i<=COLS; ++i) { j=(i-1) P[j]=1 } } { ID[NR]=$1 if(NR>1) { for(i=2; i<=COLS; ++i) { j=(i-1) C[j]=$i if(P[j]==1) { if(C[j]==0) P[j]=0 } ROW[NR,j]=$i } } else { for(i=2; i<=COLS; ++i) {...
