Moving fields around

[tekdime]

Greetings all. Wow, I can't believe there is an awk forum. But thank goodness there is.

I've read "Getting Started With Awk" (

http://www.cs.hmc.edu/tech_docs/qref/awk.html).

But it doesn't have what I'm looking to do.

Basically I want awk to read this line
$1 $2 asdfBADNAMEasdf "bla bla bla" '(any number of bla bla bla's here) (GOODNAME)'endendend
and output this
$1 $2 asdfGOODNAMEasdf "bla bla bla" '(any number of bla bla bla's here)'endendend

I'd greatly appreciate any help or advice. Also, if there's a way to do this from a shell script or another command I wasn't aware of, please let me know. Thanks for your time.

 

[PHV]

You can try this as a starting point:

awk '{
 if(match($0,/.*([^)]*)'"'"'/)){
  good=substr($0,1,RLENGTH-2)
  match(good,/.*[(]/)
  good=substr(good,RLENGTH+1)
  $3="asdf"good"asdf"
  sub("[(]"good"[)]","",$0)
 }; print
}' /path/to/inputfile

More input examples is required to determine which BADNAME to replace.

Hope This Help, PH.
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[tekdime]

Thank you.. this worked great..