I have a file with 2 lines
123|456|789
abc|123|891
I need a to output like below. Basically, I want to add the string "xyz" to col 1 and to add "xyz" as a new col 2
xyz-123|xyz|456|789
xyz-abc|xyz|123|891
This is what I used
awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS="fs-"$1}{print value OFS $0}' /tmp/b.log
I get
xyz-123|456|789
xyz-abc|123|891
I tried
awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS="fs-"$1}{print value OFS $0}' /tmp/b.log|awk -F" " '{$2="fs" $0;}1' OFS=" "
In addition to the awk's updating fields ($1, $2...) approach, we can also use substitution to do the job:
sed 's/^[^|]*/xyz-&|xyz/' file
If awk is a must:
awk '1+sub(/^[^|]*/, "xyz-&|xyz")' file
Both one-liners give expected output.
Could you please try following.
awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS="|"} {$1="xyz-"$1;$2="xyz" OFS $2} 1' Input_file
OR as per #Corentin Limier's comment try:
awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS="|"} {$1="xyz-" $1 OFS "xyz"} 1' Input_file
Output will be as follows.
xyz-123|xyz|456|789
xyz-abc|xyz|123|891
I would use sed instead of awk as follows:
sed -e 's/^/xyz-/' -e 's/|/|xyz|/' Input_file
This prepends xyz- at beginning of each line and changes the first | into |xyz|
Another slight variation of sed:
sed 's/^/xyz-/;s/|/&xyz&/' file
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how to discard the last field using awk
list.txt file contains data like below,
Ram/45/simple
Gin/Run/657/No/Sand
Ram/Hol/Sin
Tan/Tin/Bun
but I require output like below,
Ram/45
Gin/Run/657/No
Ram/Hol
Tan/Tin
tried the following command but it prints only the last field
cat list.txt |awk -F '/' '{print $(NF)}'
45
No
Hol
Tin
With GNU awk, you could try following.
awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS="/"} NF--' Input_file
OR with any awk try following.
awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS="/"} match($0,/.*\//){print substr($0,RSTART,RLENGTH-1)}' Input_file
This simple awk should work:
awk '{sub(/\/[^/]*$/, "")} 1' file
Ram/45
Gin/Run/657/No
Ram/Hol
Tan/Tin
Or even this simpler sed should also work:
sed 's~/[^/]*$~~' file
Ram/45
Gin/Run/657/No
Ram/Hol
Tan/Tin
From the cmd (awk 'some expression') I got a result in the format
Key:(white_space)Value
Key:(white_space)Value
...
How to manipulate the result to be in the format:
Key=Value
I need this because I want to put the information into .properties file format which is key=value
In other words I need to replace : with = and remove the whitespace.
Is there a command in awk that can achieve this ?
You ask for awk, while sed provides just as easy a solution. However, awk makes it trivial with sub as well:
awk '{ sub(/:[ \t]*/,"=") }1'
Example
$ echo "Key: Value" | awk '{ sub(/:[ \t]*/,"=") }1'
Key=Value
Another awk approach.
awk -F'[: ]' '{print $1 "=" $NF}' file.txt
I have semicolon-separated columns, and I would like to add some characters to a specific column.
aaa;111;bbb
ccc;222;ddd
eee;333;fff
to the second column I want to add '#', so the output should be;
aaa;#111;bbb
ccc;#222;ddd
eee;#333;fff
I tried
awk -F';' -OFS=';' '{ $2 = "#" $2}1' file
It adds the character but removes all semicolons with space.
You could use sed to do your job:
# replaces just the first occurrence of ';', note the absence of `g` that
# would have made it a global replacement
sed 's/;/;#/' file > file.out
or, to do it in place:
sed -i 's/;/;#/' file
Or, use awk:
awk -F';' '{$2 = "#"$2}1' OFS=';' file
All the above commands result in the same output for your example file:
aaa;#111;bbb
ccc;#222;ddd
eee;#333;fff
#atb: Try:
1st:
awk -F";" '{print $1 FS "#" $2 FS $3}' Input_file
Above will work only when your Input_file has 3 fields only.
2nd:
awk -F";" -vfield=2 '{$field="#"$field} 1' OFS=";" Input_file
Above code you could put any field number and could make it as per your request.
Here I am making field separator as ";" and then taking a variable named field which will have the field number in it and then that concatenating "#" in it's value and 1 is for making condition TRUE and not making and action so by default print action will happen of current line.
You just misunderstood how to set variables. Change -OFS to -v OFS:
awk -F';' -v OFS=';' '{ $2 = "#" $2 }1' file
but in reality you should set them both to the same value at one time:
awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS=";"} { $2 = "#" $2 }1' file
I want to delete lines where the first column does not contain the substring 'cat'.
So if string in col 1 is 'caterpillar', i want to keep it.
awk -F"," '{if($1 != cat) ... }' file.csv
How can i go about doing it?
I want to delete lines where the first column does not contain the substring 'cat'
That can be taken care by this awk:
awk -F, '!index($1, "cat")' file.csv
If that doesn't work then I would suggest you to provide your sample input and expected output in question.
This awk does the job too
awk -F, '$1 ~ /cat/{print}' file.csv
Explanation
-F : "Delimiter"
$1 ~ /cat/ : match pattern cat in field 1
{print} : print
A shorter command is:
awk -F, '$1 ~ "cat"' file.csv
-F is the field delimiter: (,)
$1 ~ "cat" is a (not anchored) regular expression match, match at any position.
As no action has been given, the default: {print} is assumed by awk.
I have a line like:
one:two:three:four:five:six seven:eight
and I want to use awk to get $1 to be one and $2 to be two:three:four:five:six seven:eight
I know I can get it by doing sed before. That is to change the first occurrence of : with sed then awk it using the new delimiter.
However replacing the delimiter with a new one would not help me since I can not guarantee that the new delimiter will not already be somewhere in the text.
I want to know if there is an option to get awk to behave this way
So something like:
awk -F: '{print $1,$2}'
will print:
one two:three:four:five:six seven:eight
I will also want to do some manipulations on $1 and $2 so I don't want just to substitute the first occurrence of :.
Without any substitutions
echo "one:two:three:four:five" | awk -F: '{ st = index($0,":");print $1 " " substr($0,st+1)}'
The index command finds the first occurance of the ":" in the whole string, so in this case the variable st would be set to 4. I then use substr function to grab all the rest of the string from starting from position st+1, if no end number supplied it'll go to the end of the string. The output being
one two:three:four:five
If you want to do further processing you could always set the string to a variable for further processing.
rem = substr($0,st+1)
Note this was tested on Solaris AWK but I can't see any reason why this shouldn't work on other flavours.
Some like this?
echo "one:two:three:four:five:six" | awk '{sub(/:/," ")}1'
one two:three:four:five:six
This replaces the first : to space.
You can then later get it into $1, $2
echo "one:two:three:four:five:six" | awk '{sub(/:/," ")}1' | awk '{print $1,$2}'
one two:three:four:five:six
Or in same awk, so even with substitution, you get $1 and $2 the way you like
echo "one:two:three:four:five:six" | awk '{sub(/:/," ");$1=$1;print $1,$2}'
one two:three:four:five:six
EDIT:
Using a different separator you can get first one as filed $1 and rest in $2 like this:
echo "one:two:three:four:five:six seven:eight" | awk -F\| '{sub(/:/,"|");$1=$1;print "$1="$1 "\n$2="$2}'
$1=one
$2=two:three:four:five:six seven:eight
Unique separator
echo "one:two:three:four:five:six seven:eight" | awk -F"#;#." '{sub(/:/,"#;#.");$1=$1;print "$1="$1 "\n$2="$2}'
$1=one
$2=two:three:four:five:six seven:eight
The closest you can get with is with GNU awk's FPAT:
$ awk '{print $1}' FPAT='(^[^:]+)|(:.*)' file
one
$ awk '{print $2}' FPAT='(^[^:]+)|(:.*)' file
:two:three:four:five:six seven:eight
But $2 will include the leading delimiter but you could use substr to fix that:
$ awk '{print substr($2,2)}' FPAT='(^[^:]+)|(:.*)' file
two:three:four:five:six seven:eight
So putting it all together:
$ awk '{print $1, substr($2,2)}' FPAT='(^[^:]+)|(:.*)' file
one two:three:four:five:six seven:eight
Storing the results of the substr back in $2 will allow further processing on $2 without the leading delimiter:
$ awk '{$2=substr($2,2); print $1,$2}' FPAT='(^[^:]+)|(:.*)' file
one two:three:four:five:six seven:eight
A solution that should work with mawk 1.3.3:
awk '{n=index($0,":");s=$0;$1=substr(s,1,n-1);$2=substr(s,n+1);print $1}' FS='\0'
one
awk '{n=index($0,":");s=$0;$1=substr(s,1,n-1);$2=substr(s,n+1);print $2}' FS='\0'
two:three:four five:six:seven
awk '{n=index($0,":");s=$0;$1=substr(s,1,n-1);$2=substr(s,n+1);print $1,$2}' FS='\0'
one two:three:four five:six:seven
Just throwing this on here as a solution I came up with where I wanted to split the first two columns on : but keep the rest of the line intact.
Comments inline.
echo "a:b:c:d::e" | \
awk '{
split($0,f,":"); # split $0 into array of fields `f`
sub(/^([^:]+:){2}/,"",$0); # remove first two "fields" from `$0`
print f[1],f[2],$0 # print first two elements of `f` and edited `$0`
}'
Returns:
a b c:d::e
In my input I didn't have to worry about the first two fields containing escaped :, if that was a requirement, this solution wouldn't work as expected.
Amended to match the original requirements:
echo "a:b:c:d::e" | \
awk '{
split($0,f,":");
sub(/^([^:]+:)/,"",$0);
print f[1],$0
}'
Returns:
a b:c:d::e