Hello Can I use gawk to convert small letters to big letters?. I have a txt file with many first names like this Anders HANS BILL Eddie I want all the names to...
The quickest way to convert lowercase to uppercase is probably by using tr: cat <filename> | tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]" In gawk you might be able to use the gsub...
Maartens Lourens (WMR)
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Sep 17, 2003 9:08 am
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hi all, i am new to awk programming. As i understand, each record from the input file is subjected to all the instructions in the awk script file sequentially....
According to the Unicode Consortium, Gawk supports Unicode. But, I haven't been able to find an executable for Windows that seems to work (or I don't know how...
I know notting about unicode, but I noticed that the NoteTab-editor can read and write text in UNICODE format. NoteTab works fine with awk (e.g. liberary ...
Hi, I would to do this in a gawk script: BEGIN { as="188.772.11.11" while (getline <"../datas"){ split($0,s,";") if(/$as;/) { print $0 } } } but it fails. Of...
Try if ( $0 ~ as ) { print $0 } In general, once you stuff a regular expression into a variable, you cannot use the / / syntax--that's only for literal regular...
Hi Thanks for answering - I kinda desperate! I have something like that: for i in $(ls *); do #here it is for files in a loop sed '/something/,/something/d' $i...
Hi ya Urszula Hope you're well. It doesn't seem that complex. Are your lines: u> -3.085902 (1a) u> -0.40908 (2a) u> 1.968368 (3a) u> -3.79142 (4a) u> -3.79142...
Hi Bruno... I'm confused. If you are asking about awk, there's no $. 'as' I take it is a string RegExp ? Well, "." is a meta-character, or special character....
Suppose you want to do something like this: cat file1 | gawk -f script.awk file2 file3 file4 How do you handle this? gawk (GNU Awk 3.1.1) seems to skip over...
... Some UNIX/LINUX utilities allow you to include "-" by itself among a list of filenames on the command line as an indication to read the standard input ...
See GNU project on Sourceforge.net ... From: goodmis To: geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 11:33 PM Subject: [Geeks that Gawk] Need...
Thanks William, I downloaded UnDows and it was just what I needed. I have to admit I am a little rusty on my French. Thanks Again Jason Give me (G)awk and I...
It's a pleasure Jason Did you get what you wanted ? The real gawk is on the GNU list http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617 with all the...
I am running UnDows and I would like to use a switch statement. Is this possible? switch ($1) { case 1: printf("%s\n", $1) case 2: printf("%s\n", $2) } ...
I don't think there is a switch statement in (g)awk. In this situation, I've always used the following construct: if ( ) { } else if ( ) { } else { } --Albert...
Thanks Albert, I saw something about a switch in some gawk documentation. NOTE: This subsection describes an experimental feature added in gawk 3.1.3. It is...
I have to agree with the earlier post. switch(. <var> ){ case <const> ... } Is a terse version of if-else if-else if phrasing. From gawk 3.1 User Manual: ...
Is there a way that I can implement Interactive Commands? Instead doing this by hand. Enter Name: Jason <return> Do you want to continue? Y <return> Can I put...
Hello, Have several shell scripts, that issue sed and awk commands that have worked will for years on SCO Unix. We are moving our application to a new Redhat...
... have ... to ... Hello Again, Found that shell scripts and awk programs work fine. It was just the transfer process that added something to each end of...
I have a set of files that need to have a number assigned to $3 for each record, but if the record has the same value in $2, the value in $3 must stay the same...
In order to achieve what you give in your example, I would suggest this: BEGIN {FS="|"; OFS="|"; last="";} { if ($2 != last) { last = $2 line++; } $3 =line; ...
pl. help. I have large data files that separated by numeric file extensions. I need t process them in order and compile the necessary info. What is the best...
I have used gawk for similar applications. Since it processes files sequentially, it can handle very large files. The only significant limits are the speed...
... Thanks Albert! Your solution works great. I did have to change it to fit my actual file format - here are a few lines (bear with me - I'm showing the REST...
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