I have various flat files that contain roughly 30k records that I need to reformat using a script to ensure they all have the same amount of ~'s.
For example below are two of the sample records in the flat file. The first record containing 8 ~'s and the second containing 10 ~'s.
736~company 1~cp1~1~19~~08/07/1878~09/12/2015~
658~company 2~cp2~1~19~65.12~27/06/1868~22/08/2015~address line 1~address line 2~
I need both records to contain 12 ~'s so I need code that will loop through the file add pad out each line to contain the correct number of ~'s. The desired result would be as follows.
736~company 1~cp1~1~19~~08/07/1878~09/12/2015~~~~~
658~company 2~cp2~1~19~65.12~27/06/1868~22/08/2015~address line 1~address line 2~~~
I have the following bit of code which will display the number of ~'s in each file but I'm sure how to proceed from here.
sed 's/[^~]//g' inputfile.text| awk '{ print length }'
Set the field separator to ~ and keep adding ~s until you have enough:
$ awk -F"~" -v cols=12 'NF<=cols{for (i=NF;i<=cols;i++) $0=$0 FS}1' file
736~company 1~cp1~1~19~~08/07/1878~09/12/2015~~~~~
658~company 2~cp2~1~19~65.12~27/06/1868~22/08/2015~address line 1~address line 2~~~
awk -v FS='~' -v count=12 '{line = ""; for (i = 1; i <= count; i++) { line = line "~" $i } print line }' tildes.txt
Here's a bash builtin-only solution:
a=~~~~~~~~~~~~;
while read -r line; do
n=${line//[!~]};
echo "$line${a/$n}";
done < file
Explanation
n=${l//[!~]} makes a string from all ~ characters in $l.
${a/$n} takes the string of 12 ~ characters and deletes the first match of $n, so when we append it to $l, there will be exactly 12 tildes in the echoed line.
Warning: If there are more than 12 tildes in one line in file, the corresponding outputted line will have more than 24 tildes in it, as there are no checks to make sure ${#n} is less than ${#a}.
$ awk -F"~" -v c=12 'BEGIN{OFS=FS;c++}{$c=$c}1' file
736~company 1~cp1~1~19~~08/07/1878~09/12/2015~~~~~
658~company 2~cp2~1~19~65.12~27/06/1868~22/08/2015~address line 1~address line 2~~~
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Im new to bash and trying to extract a list of patterns from file:
File1.txt
ABC
BDF
GHJ
base.csv (tried comma separated and tab delimited)
line 1,,,,"hfhf,ferf,ju,ABC"
line 2 ,,,,,"ewy,trggt,gtg,ABC,RFR"
line 3 .."himk,n,hn.ujj., BDF"
etc
Suggested output is smth like
ABC
line 1..
line 2..(whole lines)
BDF
line 3..
and so on for each pattern from file 1
the code i tried was:
#!/bin/bash
for i in *.txt -# cycle through all files containing pattern lists
do
for q in "$i"; # # cycle through list
do
echo $q >>output.${i};
grep -f "${q}" base.csv >>output.${i};
echo "\n";
done
done
But output is only filename and then some list of strings without pattern names, e.g.
File1.txt
line 1...
line 2...
line 3..
so i don`t know to what pattern belongs each string and have to check and assign manually. Can you please point out my errors? Thanks!
grep can process multiple files in one go, and then has the attractive added bonus of indicating which file it found a match in.
grep -f File1.txt base.csv >output.txt
It's not clear what you hope for the inner loop to do; it will just loop over a single token at a time, so it's not really a loop at all.
If you want the output to be grouped per pattern, here's a for loop which looks for one pattern at a time:
while read -r pat; do
echo "$pat"
grep "$pat" *.txt
done <File1.txt >output.txt
But the most efficient way to tackle this is to write a simple Awk script which processes all the input files at once, and groups the matches before printing them.
An additional concern is anchoring. grep "ABC" will find a match in 123DEABCXYZ; is this something you want to avoid? You can improve the regex, or, again, turn to Awk which gives you more control over where exactly to look for a match in a structured line.
awk '# Read patterns into memory
NR==FNR { a[++i] = $1; next }
# Loop across patterns
{ for(j=1; j<=i; ++j)
if($0 ~ a[j]) {
print FILENAME ":" FNR ":" $0 >>output.a[j]
next }
}' File1.txt base.csv
You're not actually reading the files, you're just handling the filenames. Try this:
#!/bin/bash
for i in *.txt # cycle through all files containing pattern lists
do
while read -r q # read file line by line
do
echo "$q" >>"output.${i}"
grep -f "${q}" base.csv >>"output.${i}"
echo "\n"
done < "${i}"
done
Here is one that separates (with split, comma-separatd with quotes and spaces stripped off) words from file2 to an array (word[]) and stores the record names (line 1 etc.) to it comma-separated:
awk '
NR==FNR {
n=split($0,tmp,/[" ]*(,|$)[" ]*/) # split words
for(i=2;i<=n;i++) # after first
if(tmp[i]!="") # non-empties
word[tmp[i]]=word[tmp[i]] (word[tmp[i]]==""?"":",") tmp[1] # hash rownames
record[tmp[1]]=$0 # store records
next
}
($1 in word) { # word found
n=split(word[$1],tmp,",") # get record names
print $1 ":" # output word
for(i=1;i<=n;i++) # and records
print record[tmp[i]]
}' file2 file1
Output:
ABC:
line 1,,,,"hfhf,ferf,ju,ABC"
line 2 ,,,,,"ewy,trggt,gtg,ABC,RFR"
BDF:
line 3 .."himk,n,hn.ujj., BDF"
Thank you for your kind help, my friends.
Tried both variants above but kept getting various errors ( "do" expected) or misbehavior ( gets names of pattern blocks, eg ABC, BDF, but no lines.
Gave up for a while and then eventually tried another way
While base goal were to cycle through pattern list files, search for patterns in huge file and write out specific columns from lines found - i simply wrote
for *i in *txt # cycle throughfiles w/ patterns
do
grep -F -f "$i" bigfile.csv >> ${i}.out1 #greps all patterns from current file
cut -f 2,3,4,7 ${i}.out1>> ${i}.out2 # cuts columns of interest and writes them out to another file
done
I'm aware that this code should be improved using some fancy pipeline features, but it works perfectly as is, hope it`ll help somebody in similar situation. You can easily add some echoes to write out pattern list names as i initially requested
Suppose I have a file that resembles the following format:
\\ Random other lines \\
...
27861NA+ NA+89122 13.480 11.554 10.082
27862NA+ NA+89123 2.166 5.896 10.108
27863NA+ NA+89124 8.289 6.843 3.090
27864NA+ NA+89125 12.972 5.936 4.498
27865CL- CL-89126 13.914 2.125 12.915
27866CL- CL-89127 12.050 13.907 3.559
...
\\ Random other lines \\
I am trying to find a way of replacing the last 24 characters of each line with a string that I have prepared, for the first 3 instances of lines in the file that contain the string "NA+".
For example, my output would ideally look like:
\\ Random other lines \\
...
27861NA+ NA+89122 my first string hello
27862NA+ NA+89123 my second string foo
27863NA+ NA+89124 my final string bar $$
27864NA+ NA+89125 12.972 5.936 4.498
27865CL- CL-89126 13.914 2.125 12.915
27866CL- CL-89127 12.050 13.907 3.559
...
\\ Random other lines \\
So far, I have found a sed command that will remove the last 24 characters from every line in the file:
sed 's/.\{24\}$//' myfile.txt
And also an awk command that will return the kth line that contains the desired substring:
awk '/NA+/{i++}i==1' myfile.txt
Does anyone have an idea about how I could replace the last 24 characters in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd lines of my file that each contain a certain substring?
With single awk:
awk -v str="my string" '!f && /NA\+/{ f=1; n=NR+3 }n && n>NR{ $4=$5=""; $3=str }1' myfile.txt
string="my first string hello"
awk -v string="$string" '{ if ( $0 ~ "NA" ) {cnt++} if (cnt < 4 ) { print substr($0,1,length($0)-23)string } else { print }}' NA
Using awk, set a string and pass it awk with -v. Search for strings containing NA and the increment the variable cnt. When cnt is less that 4, print the everything but the last 23 characters adding the string passed to the end. Otherwise print the line.
This might work for you (GNU sed):
sed '/NA+/{x;s/\n/&/3;x;ta;H;s/.\{24\}$/some string/;b;:a;n;ba}' file
This uses the hold space (HS) to keep a count of the number of lines the script has seen of the required string (NA+). Once it has seen n (in this case n=3) such lines it just prints the remainder of the file.
XYZNA0000778800Z
16123000012300321000000008000000000000000
16124000012300322000000007000000000000000
17234000012300323000000005000000000000000
17345000012300324000000004000000000000000
17456000012300325000000003000000000000000
9
XYZNA0000778900Z
16123000012300321000000008000000000000000
16124000012300322000000007000000000000000
17234000012300323000000005000000000000000
17345000012300324000000004000000000000000
17456000012300325000000003000000000000000
9
I have above file format from which I want to find a matching record. For example, match a number(7789) on line starting with XYZ and once matched look for a matching number (7345) in lines below starting with 1 until it reaches to line starting with 9. retrieve the entire line record. How can I accomplish this using shell script, awk, sed or any combination.
Expected Output:
XYZNA0000778900Z
17345000012300324000000004000000000000000
With sed one can do:
$ sed -n '/^XYZ.*7789/,/^9$/{/^1.*7345/p}' file
17345000012300324000000004000000000000000
Breakdown:
sed -n ' ' # -n disabled automatic printing
/^XYZ.*7789/, # Match line starting with XYZ, and
# containing 7789
/^1.*7345/p # Print line starting with 1 and
# containing 7345, which is coming
# after the previous match
/^9$/ { } # Match line that is 9
range { stuff } will execute stuff when it's inside range, in this case the range is starting at /^XYZ.*7789/ and ending with /^9$/.
.* will match anything but newlines zero or more times.
If you want to print the whole block matching the conditions, one can use:
$ sed -n '/^XYZ.*7789/{:s;N;/\n9$/!bs;/\n1.*7345/p}' file
XYZNA0000778900Z
16123000012300321000000008000000000000000
16124000012300322000000007000000000000000
17234000012300323000000005000000000000000
17345000012300324000000004000000000000000
17456000012300325000000003000000000000000
9
This works by reading lines between ^XYZ.*7779 and ^9$ into the pattern
space. And then printing the whole thing if ^1.*7345 can be matches:
sed -n ' ' # -n disables printing
/^XYZ.*7789/{ } # Match line starting
# with XYZ that also contains 7789
:s; # Define label s
N; # Append next line to pattern space
/\n9$/!bs; # Goto s unless \n9$ matches
/\n1.*7345/p # Print whole pattern space
# if \n1.*7345 matches
I'd use awk:
awk -v rid=7789 -v fid=7345 -v RS='\n9\n' -F '\n' 'index($1, rid) { for(i = 2; i < $NF; ++i) { if(index($i, fid)) { print $i; next } } }' filename
This works as follows:
-v RS='\n9\n' is the meat of the whole thing. Awk separates its input into records (by default lines). This sets the record separator to \n9\n, which means that records are separated by lines with a single 9 on them. These records are further separated into fields, and
-F '\n' tells awk that fields in a record are separated by newlines, so that each line in a record becomes a field.
-v rid=7789 -v fid=7345 sets two awk variables rid and fid (meant by me as record identifier and field identifier, respectively. The names are arbitrary.) to your search strings. You could encode these in the awk script directly, but this way makes it easier and safer to replace the values with those of a shell variables (which I expect you'll want to do).
Then the code:
index($1, rid) { # In records whose first field contains rid
for(i = 2; i < $NF; ++i) { # Walk through the fields from the second
if(index($i, fid)) { # When you find one that contains fid
print $i # Print it,
next # and continue with the next record.
} # Remove the "next" line if you want all matching
} # fields.
}
Note that multi-character record separators are not strictly required by POSIX awk, and I'm not certain if BSD awk accepts it. Both GNU awk and mawk do, though.
EDIT: Misread question the first time around.
an extendable awk script can be
$ awk '/^9$/{s=0} s&&/7345/; /^XYZ/&&/7789/{s=1} ' file
set flag s when line starts with XYZ and contains 7789; reset when line is just 9, and print when flag is set and contains pattern 7345.
This might work for you (GNU sed):
sed -n '/^XYZ/h;//!H;/^9/!b;x;/^XYZ[^\n]*7789/!b;/7345/p' file
Use the option -n for the grep-like nature of sed. Gather up records beginning with XYZ and ending in 9. Reject any records which do not have 7789 in the header. Print any remaining records that contain 7345.
If the 7345 will always follow the header,this could be shortened to:
sed -n '/^XYZ/h;//!H;/^9/!b;x;/^XYZ[^\n]*7789.*7345/p' file
If all records are well-formed (begin XYZ and end in 9) then use:
sed -n '/^XYZ/h;//!H;/^9/!b;x;/^[^\n]*7789.*7345/p' file
I have a directory of files, myFiles/, and a text file values.txt in which one column is a set of values to find, and the second column is the corresponding replace value.
The goal is to replace all instances of find values (first column of values.txt) with the corresponding replace values (second column of values.txt) in all of the files located in myFiles/.
For example...
values.txt:
Hello Goodbye
Happy Sad
Running the command would replace all instances of "Hello" with "Goodbye" in every file in myFiles/, as well as replace every instance of "Happy" with "Sad" in every file in myFiles/.
I've taken as many attempts at using awk/sed and so on as I can think logical, but have failed to produce a command that performs the action desired.
Any guidance is appreciated. Thank you!
Read each line from values.txt
Split that line in 2 words
Use sed for each line to replace 1st word with 2st word in all files in myFiles/ directory
Note: I've used bash parameter expansion to split the line (${line% *} etc) , assuming values.txt is space separated 2 columnar file. If it's not the case, you may use awk or cut to split the line.
while read -r line;do
sed -i "s/${line#* }/${line% *}/g" myFiles/* # '-i' edits files in place and 'g' replaces all occurrences of patterns
done < values.txt
You can do what you want with awk.
#! /usr/bin/awk -f
# snarf in first file, values.txt
FNR == NR {
subs[$1] = $2
next
}
# apply replacements to subsequent files
{
for( old in subs ) {
while( index(old, $0) ) {
start = index(old, $0)
len = length(old)
$0 = substr($0, start, len) subs[old] substr($0, start + len)
}
}
print
}
When you invoke it, put values.txt as the first file to be processed.
Option One:
create a python script
with open('filename', 'r') as infile, etc., read in the values.txt file into a python dict with 'from' as key, and 'to' as value. close the infile.
use shutil to read in directory wanted, iterate over files, for each, do popen 'sed 's/from/to/g'" or read in each file interating over all the lines, each line you find/replace.
Option Two:
bash script
read in a from/to pair
invoke
perl -p -i -e 's/from/to/g' dirname/*.txt
done
second is probably easier to write but less exception handling.
It's called 'Perl PIE' and it's a relatively famous hack for doing find/replace in lots of files at once.
Given the following file structure,
9.975 1.49000000 0.295 0 0.4880 0.4929 0.5113 0.5245 2.016726 1.0472 -30.7449 1
9.975 1.49000000 0.295 1 0.4870 0.5056 0.5188 0.5045 2.015859 1.0442 -30.7653 1
9.975 1.50000000 0.295 0 0.5145 0.4984 0.4873 0.5019 2.002143 1.0854 -30.3044 2
is there a way to extract each line in which the value in column two is not equal to the value in column two in the following line?
I.e. from these three lines I would like to extract the second one, since 1.49 is not equal to 1.50.
Maybe with sed or awk?
This is how I do this in MATLAB:
myline = 1;
mynewline = 1;
while myline < length(myfile)
if myfile(myline,2) ~= myfile(myline+1,2)
mynewfile(mynewline,:) = myfile(myline,:);
mynewline = mynewline+1;
myline = myline+1;
else
myline = myline+1;
end
end
However, my files are so large now that I would prefer to carry out this extraction in terminal before transferring them to my laptop.
Awk should do.
<data awk '($2 != prev) {print line} {line = $0; prev = $2}'
A brief intro to awk: awk program consists of a set of condition {code} blocks. It operates line by line. When no condition is given, the block is executed for each line. BEGIN condition is executed before the first line. Each line is split to fields, which are accessible with $_number_. The full line is in $0.
Here I compare the second field to the previous value, if it does not match I print the whole previous line. In all cases I store the current line into line and the second field into prev.
And if you really want it right, careful with the float comparisons - something like abs($2 - prev) < eps (there is no abs in awk, you need to define it yourself, and eps is some small enough number). I'm actually not sure if awk converts to number for equality testing, if not you're safe with the string comparisons.
This might work for you (GNU sed):
sed -r 'N;/^((\S+)\s+){2}.*\n\S+\s+\2/!P;D' file
Read two lines at a time. Pattern match on the first two columns and only print the first line when the second column does not match.
Try following command:
awk '$2 != field && field { print line } { field = $2; line = $0 }' infile
It saves previous line and second field, comparing in next loop with current line values. The && field check is useful to avoid a blank line at the beginning of file, when $2 != field would match because variable is empty.
It yields:
9.975 1.49000000 0.295 1 0.4870 0.5056 0.5188 0.5045 2.015859 1.0442 -30.7653 1