I'm trying to parse a csv file I made with Google Spreadsheet. It's very simple for testing purposes, and is basically:
1,2
3,4
5,6
The problem is that the csv doesn't end in a newline character so when I cat the file in BASH, I get
MacBook-Pro:Desktop kkSlider$ cat test.csv
1,2
3,4
5,6MacBook-Pro:Desktop kkSlider$
I just want to read line by line in a BASH script using a while loop that every guide suggests, and my script looks like this:
while IFS=',' read -r last first
do
echo "$last $first"
done < test.csv
The output is:
MacBook-Pro:Desktop kkSlider$ ./test.sh
1 2
3 4
Any ideas on how I could have it read that last line and echo it?
Thanks in advance.
You can force the input to your loop to end with a newline thus:
#!/bin/bash
(cat test.csv ; echo) | while IFS=',' read -r last first
do
echo "$last $first"
done
Unfortunately, this may result in an empty line at the end of your output if the input already has a newline at the end. You can fix that with a little addition:
!/bin/bash
(cat test.csv ; echo) | while IFS=',' read -r last first
do
if [[ $last != "" ]] ; then
echo "$last $first"
fi
done
Another method relies on the fact that the values are being placed into the variables by the read but they're just not being output because of the while statement:
#!/bin/bash
while IFS=',' read -r last first
do
echo "$last $first"
done <test.csv
if [[ $last != "" ]] ; then
echo "$last $first"
fi
That one works without creating another subshell to modify the input to the while statement.
Of course, I'm assuming here that you want to do more inside the loop that just output the values with a space rather than a comma. If that's all you wanted to do, there are other tools better suited than a bash read loop, such as:
tr "," " " <test.csv
cat file |sed -e '${/^$/!s/$/\n/;}'| while IFS=',' read -r last first; do echo "$last $first"; done
If the last (unterminated) line needs to be processed differently from the rest, #paxdiablo's version with the extra if statement is the way to go; but if it's going to be handled like all the others, it's cleaner to process it in the main loop.
You can roll the "if there was an unterminated last line" into the main loop condition like this:
while IFS=',' read -r last first || [ -n "$last" ]
do
echo "$last $first"
done < test.csv
Related
I need an output of current count vs total count in single line. I would like to know if this could be done Via Bash using 'for' 'while' loop.
Expecting an output that should only update the count and should not display multiple lines
File Content
$ cat ~/test.rtf
hostname1
hostname2
hostname3
hostname4
#!/bin/sh
j=1
k=$(cat ~/test.rtf | wc -l)
for i in $(cat ~/test.rtf);
do
echo "Working on line ($j/$k)"
echo "$i"
#or any other command for i
j=$((j+1))
done
EX:
Working on line (2/4)
Not like,
Working on line (2/4)
Working on line (3/4)
Assumptions:
OP wants to generate n lines of output that overwrite each other on successive passes through the loop
in OP's sample code there are two echo calls so in this case n=2
General approaches:
issue a clear at the beginning of each pass through the loop so as to clear the current output and reposition the cursor at the 'top' of the console/window
use tput to manage movement of the cursor (and clearing/overwriting of previous output)
Sample input:
$ cat test.rtf
this is line1
then line2
and line3
and last but not least line4
real last line5
clear approach:
j=1
k=$(wc -l < test.rtf)
while read -r line
do
clear
echo "Working on line ($j/$k)"
echo "${line}"
((j++))
done < test.rtf
tput approach:
j=1
k=$(wc -l < test.rtf)
EraseToEOL=$(tput el) # grab terminal specific code for clearing from cursor to EOL
clear # optional: start with a new screen otherwise use current position in console/window for next command ...
tput sc # grab current cursor position
while read -r line
do
tput rc # go (back) to cursor position stored via 'tput sc'
echo "Working on line ($j/$k)"
echo "${line}${EraseToEOL}" # ${EraseToEOL} forces clearing rest of line, effectively erasing a previous line that may have been longer then the current line of output
((j++))
done < test.rtf
Both of these generate the same result:
Something along these lines:
file=~/test.rtf
nl=$(wc -l "$file")
nl=${nl%%[[:blank:]]*}
i=0
while IFS= read -r line; do
i=$((i+1))
echo "Working on line ($i/$nl)"
done < "$file"
Your main question is how to avoid each the counter to be written to new lines. The newlines are \n characters, which is appended by echo. You want \r, like
for ((i=0; i<10; i++)); do
printf "Counter $i\r"
sleep 1
done
echo
When you echo something from the line you are working on, you will use \n again. I will use cut as an example of processing the inputline. Use the output string in the same printf command like
j=1
k=$(cat ~/test.rtf | wc -l)
while IFS= read -r line; do
printf "Working on line (%s): %s\r" "$j/$k" $(cut -c1-10 <<< "${line}")
sleep 1
((j++))
done < ~/test.rft
The problem with the above solution is that you will see output from previous lines when your last output is shorter than the previous one. When you know the maximum length that your processing of the line will show, you can force additional spaces:
j=1
k=$(cat ~/test.rtf | wc -l)
while IFS= read -r line; do
printf "Working on line (%5.5s): %-20s\r" "$j/$k" "$(cut -c1-20 <<< "${line}")";
sleep 1
((j++))
done < ~/test.rft
I am trying to do some math on 2nd column of a txt file , but some lines are not numbers , i only want to operate on the lines which have numbers .and keep other line unchanged
txt file like below
aaaaa
1 2
3 4
How can I do this?
Doubling the second column in any line that doesn't contain any alphabetic content might look a bit like the following in native bash:
#!/bin/bash
# iterate over lines in input file
while IFS= read -r line; do
if [[ $line = *[[:alpha:]]* ]]; then
# line contains letters; emit unmodified
printf '%s\n' "$line"
else
# break into a variable for the first word, one for the second, one for the rest
read -r first second rest <<<"$line"
if [[ $second ]]; then
# we extracted a second word: emit it, doubled, between the first word and the rest
printf '%s\n' "$first $(( second * 2 )) $rest"
else
# no second word: just emit the whole line unmodified
printf '%s\n' "$line"
fi
fi
done
This reads from stdin and writes to stdout, so usage is something like:
./yourscript <infile >outfile
thanks all ,this is my second time to use this website ,i find it is so helpful that it can get the answer very quickly
I also find a answer below
#!/bin/bash
FILE=$1
while read f1 f2 ;do
if[[$f1 != *[!0-9]*]];then
f2=`echo "$f2 -1"|bc` ;
echo "$f1 $f2"
else
echo "$f1 $f2"
fi
done< %FILE
I have the following input
MyComposite[2.1], partition=default, mode=active, state=on, isDefault=true, deployedTime=2012-05-07T15:35:22.473-07:00
MessageManager[1.0], partition=default, mode=active, state=on, isDefault=true, deployedTime=2012-05-07T15:37:14.137-07:00
SimpleApproval[1.0], partition=default, mode=active, state=on, isDefault=true, deployedTime=2012-05-07T15:28:39.599-07:00
and I have a script that parses the input line by line from a file but I don't have a clue on how I could extract individual parameters from each line into local variables so I can perform additional processes
So far I'm trying the following:
#!/bin/ksh
file="output"
compositeName="foo" ci=0
# while loop while read line do
# display line or do somthing on $line
if echo "$line" | egrep -q '\[[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\].*?(mode=active).*?
(state=on)' then compositeName=$( echo "$line" | egrep '[0-9]*' )
echo "$compositeName"
#echo "$line"
fi
done <"$file"
I'm somwhow lookint to extract only two values from this string, the first word and the float between brackets
ie:
name = MyComposite
version = 2.1
any ideas?
I'm not sure if those line numbers are in the file or not. If not, you can do this:
#!/usr/bin/env ksh
while IFS="," read nameVersion line; do
name="${nameVersion%%\[*}"
version="${nameVersion//*\[+([0-9.])\]*/\1}"
print "name=$name version=$version"
done < "$file"
If the line numbers are in the file, change the name assignment in the above script to name="${nameVersion//+([0-9]).+( )+(*)\[*/\3}"
The following program reads a file and it intends to store the all values (each line) into a variable but doesn't store the last line. Why?
file.txt :
1
2
.
.
.
n
Code :
FileName=file.txt
if test -f $FileName # Check if the file exists
then
while read -r line
do
fileNamesListStr="$fileNamesListStr $line"
done < $FileName
fi
echo "$fileNamesListStr" // 1 2 3 ..... n-1 (but it should print up to n.)
Instead of reading line-by-line, why not read the whole file at once?
[ -f $FileName ] && fileNameListStr=$( tr '\n' ' ' < $FileName )
One probable cause is that there misses a newline after the last line n.
Use the following command to check it:
tail -1 file.txt
And the following fixes:
echo >> file.txt
If you really need to keep the last line without newline, I reorganized the while loop here.
#!/bin/bash
FileName=0
if test -f $FileName ; then
while [ 1 ] ; do
read -r line
if [ -z $line ] ; then
break
fi
fileNamesListStr="$fileNamesListStr $line"
done < $FileName
fi
echo "$fileNamesListStr"
The issue is that when the file does not end in a newline, read returns non-zero and the loop does not proceed. The read command will still read the data, but it will not process the loop. This means that you need to do further processing outside of the loop. You also probably want an array instead of a space separated string.
FileName=file.txt
if test -f $FileName # Check if the file exists
then
while read -r line
do
fileNamesListArr+=("$line")
done < $FileName
[[ -n $line ]] && fileNamesListArr+=("$line")
fi
echo "${fileNameListArr[#]}"
See the "My text files are broken! They lack their final newlines!" section of this article:
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/001
As a workaround, before reading from the text file a newline can be appended to the file.
echo "\n" >> $file_path
This will ensure that all the lines that was previously in the file will be read. Now the file can be read line by line.
Here is how I read a file row by row:
while read ROW
do
...
done < file
I don't use the other syntax
cat file | while read ROW
do
...
done
because the pipe creates a subshell and makes me lose the environment variables.
The problem arises if the file doesn't end with a newline: last line is not read. It is easy to solve this in the latter syntax, by echoing just a newline:
(cat file; echo) | while read ROW
do
...
done
How do I do the same in the former syntax, without opening a subshell nor creating a temporary file (the list is quite big)?
A way that works in all shells is the following:
#!/bin/sh
willexit=0
while [ $willexit == 0 ] ; do
read ROW || willexit=1
...
done < file
A direct while read will exit as soon as read encounters the EOF, so the last line will not be processed. By checking the return value outside the while, we can process the last line. An additional test for the emptiness of $ROW should be added after the read though, since otherwise a file whose last line ends with a newline will generate a spurious execution with an empty line, so make it
#!/bin/sh
willexit=0
while [ $willexit == 0 ] ; do
read ROW || willexit=1
if [ -n "$ROW"] ; then
...
fi
done < file
#!/bin/bash
while read ROW
...
done < <(cat file ; echo)
The POSIX way to do this is via a named pipe.
#!/bin/sh
[ -p mypipe ] || mkfifo mypipe
(cat num7; echo) > mypipe &
while read line; do
echo "-->$line<--"
export CNT=$((cnt+1))
done < mypipe
rm mypipe
echo "CNT is '$cnt'"
Input
$ cat infile
1
2
3
4
5$
Output
$ (cat infile;echo) > mypipe & while read line; do echo "-->$line<--"; export CNT=$((cnt+1)); done < mypipe; echo "CNT is '$cnt'"
[1] 22260
-->1<--
-->2<--
-->3<--
-->4<--
-->5<--
CNT is '5'
[1]+ Done ( cat num7; echo ) > mypipe
From an answer to a similar question:
while IFS= read -r LINE || [ -n "${LINE}" ]; do
...
done <file
The IFS= part prevents read from stripping leading and trailing whitespace (see this answer).
If you need to react differently depending on whether the file has a trailing newline or not (e.g., warn the user) you'll have to make some changes to the while condition.