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BASH extract fields from string

Posted 04-05-2020 at 05:19 PM by karanis
Tags awk, bash

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cut

link above have nice examples

Examples of use of similar tools in cut's domain:

echo a b|awk '{print $2}'
Displays "b", separating fields by any number of tabs or spaces. Thus, for awk, "b" is the 2nd field, while for cut -d" ", "b" is the 3rd field.
echo a b|awk '{print $2 $1}'
Displays "ba", preserving the order of the fields as specified....
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Old

sed awk tr etc

Posted 01-15-2013 at 06:33 AM by NullTerminator
Updated 01-18-2013 at 06:54 AM by NullTerminator (add sed cmd for non prinitng char)

A couple sample to strip unreadable characters from a binary file
Code:
# Translate junk characters into newlines while squeezing
C:\Temp>tr -sc '[\011\012\015\040-\176]' \n < blob_of_data.txt

# Translate and discard single character lines
C:\Temp>tr -sc '[\011\012\015\040-\176]' \n < blob_of_data.txt | awk "length($0) > 1"
# replace a bad character in a file
0xa0 is a 'non breaking space' that appears often when...
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Old

editing a text file

Posted 03-26-2012 at 08:58 AM by arn2025
Tags awk, text files

i want to edit this text file and remove the column with the arts and also edit the separator & so that they become columns.
old text

ANNE 2453 3564 M@M.U 1 O&C&TY
JUDE 3453 2345 n@m.u 1 W&Y&TY
wend 3442 3773 h@y.u 1 O&C&TY
fill 3266 7473 g@m.u 1 W&T&TY
feat 3455 5544 1 W&C&TY
carl 3435 6723 1 Y&C&TY
wade 3442 7843 1 L&C&TY
jenw 7863 9028 1 P&C&TY
matt...
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How to kill lines before and after a pattern

Posted 12-21-2011 at 05:45 PM by Telengard (Here are some things which I hope will be helpful.)
Updated 12-21-2011 at 06:27 PM by Telengard
Tags awk

PHP Code:
#! /usr/bin/awk -f

# Deletes n lines before pattern and m lines after.
# Intended to be portable.
# It is your own responsibility to evaluate the fitness of this program.

BEGIN {
    
# set the following initializers as you please
    # FS=" "
    # OFS=" "
    
n=5
    m
=3
}

/
line 11/ { # insert your desired regex "pattern" between the slashes
    
pattern_line=FNR 
...
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Joining records using sed or awk

Posted 07-01-2009 at 07:34 AM by JimRobinson
Tags awk, line join, sed

I have a very large file, 9 million records, and there are sections in the file where I need to join records. How can I get for example line number 100,000 and join to it lines 100,001-100,050 using sed or awk? The joins need to happen multiple times throughout the file. I can get the line number for the first and last line I need in my join but am having difficulty figuring out how to reformat the file with the lines joined and the file saved with the one end-resulting line.

Any...
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