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Assigning Variables on the Command Line 6 47 (3/4/2007 2:56:12 PM) comp.lang.awk Hi All, I have this "semi-interactive" GAWK script, where I can specify 3 variables on the command line: $ awk -v component=7 -v type=1 -v coverage=99 -f my_script.awk The script looks like this: BEGIN { F... Hermann

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script help 1 65 (5/25/2012 8:04:56 PM) comp.lang.awk I have a file that doesn't have a field delimiter between the columns and I want to add a colon between each column. I can identify the columns by hard coding the range: such as "col1 to col 10" "col11 to col... rvaedex23 (42)

Ambiguous Redirect error while accessing cmd line arg in a function 5 113 (10/10/2012 4:42:52 AM) comp.unix.shell I am writting a script to do below activities on a numFile having a set of numbers: 1. Addition 2. Average 3. Max/Min With Addition code , below error message is coming. code: sum=0 sumNumber() ##... bhatnagar.bhavesh (19)

Drawling a complete blank (sort and move oldest) 5 13 (2/8/2013 6:11:59 PM) comp.unix.shell I am writing a script that will look into a directory structure looking for= rpm find the rpms and move the oldest ones based build name and creation t= ime to an archive folder. I have the data collection ... MKruer (33)

Converting broken German characters from ??? to =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E4=2C_=F6=2C_=FC?= etc. 12 26 (3/25/2013 11:18:10 PM) comp.unix.shell I use wget to fetch html files which always include some German characters, but after fetching, they display incorrectly in various applications that normally display German characters fine. The broken char... tuxedo (99)

mktime() (GAWK) question 5 148 (11/20/2011 1:49:41 PM) comp.lang.awk Is it documented that the function only works up to 2038 (presumably to the moment of the Unix time rollover)? -- They say compassion is a virtue, but I don't have the time! - David Byrne - ... gazelle3 (1598)

assigning array variables 38 58 (2/20/2012 9:05:57 PM) comp.lang.awk [ gnu awk 3.1.7 ] can array variables be assigned without reading input? e.g: array=(A B C D E) for (name in array) .... ... bryanlepore (24)

xgawk 7 91 (3/7/2012 8:48:22 PM) comp.lang.awk Hi there, I tried out to use xgawk to process some xml files but failed on quite explicit, but not easy to solve,error: $ xgawk -l xml s.awk f.xml xgawk: fatal: extension: cannot find dynamic library `xml' ... steph2953 (3)

producing time strings 15 81 (3/21/2012 6:41:29 PM) comp.lang.awk Hi, As part of a larger program, I'm constructing time strings from input that looks like this: "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS" including the double quotes. I need the output to look the same, without the double quot... spluque (54)

awk -F / cut -d, whitespace, fields 2 44 (4/8/2012 6:30:33 AM) comp.unix.shell Hi, cut -d seems to consider every occurence of the delimiter as a new field... ok that's consistent awk -F seems to do the same if the delimiter is not a whitespace character, but if it is a whitespace chara... andre.aitken.a (15)

Is this a job for awk? 7 37 (5/8/2012 3:06:35 PM) comp.lang.awk Hello guys I stumbled upon awk today and it's pretty neat. I am thinking about an application and I don't know if it's better to write it in C or awk. Basically I want to scan source for certain commands and do... fritz9111 (34)