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abhigrkist

12-22-2009 12:29 AM

how to find a file with uniq extension

Hi ,

I have one file called “ab” in below path. That file contains so many no of file with dot extensions.

cat ab
crank.ini
lion.DAT
tiger.bad
unix.txt
linux.ini
abhi.DAT
P.bad
del.bhabani
avatar.film
KNPH.film
sri.txt
suc.com
loh.txt
ama.com

Please tell me how can I knw only uniq .extensions??

catkin

12-22-2009 12:50 AM

What have you thought of and tried so far?

Your question is ambiguous. Do you mean that you are given extension ".ab" and you want to know if it is unique or you want to generate a list of extensions that are unique. By "unique" do you mean unique in the current directory, current file system, computer, network ...? The first step to solving a problem is to know exactly what the problem is!

deepinlife

12-22-2009 01:17 AM

Code:

#!/bin/bash



while read f ;

do

#        echo $f;

        echo ${f##*.} >> extensions

done <ab



sort extensions  | uniq -u -i>extension3

i think he needs to know the unique extensions in the file
extension3 will have the unique extensions,i think

ghostdog74

12-22-2009 01:35 AM

Code:

$ awk -F"." '!a[$NF]++{print $NF}' file

ini

DAT

bad

txt

bhabani

film

com

ashok.g

12-22-2009 01:38 AM

Can you explain the code??

ghostdog74

12-22-2009 02:16 AM

Code:

$ awk -F"." 'a[$NF]++{print $NF,a[$NF]}' file

ini 2

DAT 2

bad 2

film 2

txt 2

txt 3

com 2

the above says, store the extension in associative array "a", and increment its value each time its found and stored.

Code:

$ awk -F"." '!a[$NF]++{print $NF,a[$NF]}' file

ini 1

DAT 1

bad 1

txt 1

bhabani 1

film 1

com 1

By putting "!" operator in front, and since "!" precedence is higher than ++, it just says those extension that are "not" already in array, store it. Skip it if its already in array.

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