Generating multiple files based on contents from 1 file.
Generating multiple files based on contents from 1 file.
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Hello, I am new to AWK and I was wondering if I can use AWK for this:
I have to generate multiple files for a performance testing task where only the filename and a string within the file would be incremented for each test file. We need to generate thousands of files which is why we are looking for an automated solution. Can I create a "master" file for this and have AWK use this file to generate all my test files? Here's what I'm thinking:
Master File contains:
1. filename = WAWF_I_002-TEST-XXXX.xml (where XXXX will be incremented for each file)
2. include a variable within the data to increment my invoice number to correspond to the filename (<Invoice_Document.Invoice_Identification.Identifier>6U02130228-XXXX</Invoice_Document.Invoice_Identification.Identifier>)
3. all remaining data to be included on each file as noted except for the invoice number (possibly surrounded by {} or any other special character to indicate the beginning and ending of the data block)
Any thoughts on this? Will this be a good approach to take? Your help with this will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Gilmar
I have to generate multiple files for a performance testing task where only the filename and a string within the file would be incremented for each test file. We need to generate thousands of files which is why we are looking for an automated solution. Can I create a "master" file for this and have AWK use this file to generate all my test files? Here's what I'm thinking:
Master File contains:
1. filename = WAWF_I_002-TEST-XXXX.xml (where XXXX will be incremented for each file)
2. include a variable within the data to increment my invoice number to correspond to the filename (<Invoice_Document.Invoice_Identification.Identifier>6U02130228-XXXX</Invoice_Document.Invoice_Identification.Identifier>)
3. all remaining data to be included on each file as noted except for the invoice number (possibly surrounded by {} or any other special character to indicate the beginning and ending of the data block)
Any thoughts on this? Will this be a good approach to take? Your help with this will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Gilmar
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RE: Generating multiple files based on contents from 1 file.
Try something like this:
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==> cat m4 # This is the master xml file, notice the text to replace is '%INVOICE%' # cat - <<! >master.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <document><controlData><systemName>ADMIN</systemName> <generationUserId>ElkaBrwn01</generationUserId> <generationDate>03172011</generationDate> <generationTime>193800</generationTime> <generationProcedure/> <formType>INVOICE</formType> <documentClass>CI</documentClass> <Invoice_Document.Invoice_Identification.Identifier>%INVOICE%</Invoice_Document.Invoice_Identification.Identifier> <Amount>153775.12</Amount> <actionRequested>create</actionRequested> ! rm WAWF_I_002-TEST-*.xml 2>&1 >MasterFile max=3 #<== number of files to generate i=0 while [ i -le max ] do (( i+=1 )) SEQNO=`printf "%04d" $i` OUTFILE="WAWF_I_002-TEST-${SEQNO}.xml" INVOICE="6U02130228-${SEQNO}" echo "$i - $OUTFILE $INVOICE" sed "s/%INVOICE%/$INVOICE/" master.xml > $OUTFILE echo "$OUTFILE $INVOICE" >>MasterFile done ==> ./m4 1 - WAWF_I_002-TEST-0001.xml 6U02130228-0001 2 - WAWF_I_002-TEST-0002.xml 6U02130228-0002 3 - WAWF_I_002-TEST-0003.xml 6U02130228-0003 4 - WAWF_I_002-TEST-0004.xml 6U02130228-0004 ==> l|grep WAWF -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 504 Jan 10 14:28 WAWF_I_002-TEST-0004.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 504 Jan 10 14:28 WAWF_I_002-TEST-0003.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 504 Jan 10 14:28 WAWF_I_002-TEST-0002.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 504 Jan 10 14:28 WAWF_I_002-TEST-0001.xml ==>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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RE: Generating multiple files based on contents from 1 file.
-bash: [: i: integer expression expected
Do I need to add something to my logic piece? Also, I noticed this is using SED. Does SED work as well as AWK?
Thanks,
Gilmar
RE: Generating multiple files based on contents from 1 file.
while [ i -le max ]
with this:
while [ $i -le $max ]
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RE: Generating multiple files based on contents from 1 file.
Thanks again,
Gilmar