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merge 2 files into third
Hi, I have two files with the same format. Each of these files are | delimited and have a record identifier. 1 header, 2 detail, 3 trailer. In the out put file: I need to have the header of file a, merge the detail records of two files and sum up the corresponding trailer values of these two... -
Help with passing variables
Hi. I was wondering if I could fix the problem I have with my previous message in a different way. I'm sorry for multiple threads, I'm a newbie to both unix and awk and do not even have a awk book to refer. I'll repeat the whole issue again... -
Need Help with printing
Here is my script. ******************************************************** test.ksh for i in $dir do test.awk i > $dir/(basename i)_C done ********** test1.awk BEGIN{OFS=FS="*"} /QR/{ for (j=1;j<=NF-7;j++) { if ($j ~ /QR/ && $(j+1)=="XA")... -
parse a single line?
Hi I'm very new to unix and awk. here is what I want. For ex: In input file FILE, * is the delimiter If the file is : ABC*12*avxcgju932*00**123*12345678iouyt*18*123nhtrkw... -
Looping through all files in a directory
Hi, I'm very new to unix shell scripting. Need some help. I have to loop through a few files in a directory. for i in $files do awk -f test.awk $i done If my directory is /X how do I assign files to? files= ? TIA
