Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:29:44 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@hades.hell.gr> To: SIVARAM N <sivaramn@wipsys.ge.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: awk/gawk question Message-ID: <20000111182944.B64680@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <006a01bf5c11$6bdb5940$8b2fa8c0@wipsys.ge.com> References: <006a01bf5c11$6bdb5940$8b2fa8c0@wipsys.ge.com>
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 02:24:07PM +0530, SIVARAM N wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I have a record(s) with the word "DESC" anywhere within it,
> How do i extract all chars upto the word "DESC" and all the chars after
> "DESC" till the end of the line/record separately.
>
> like for e.g
> DESC : audit file
> ADEIN DESC : file from ADE
If you want to use DESC as the separator of records, you can always
change FS in awk to achieve it.
$ cat desc.awk
BEGIN {
FS = "DESC";
}
{
print NF,":",$1,"/",$2;
}
$ cat <<EOF | awk -f desc.awk
broken DESC fields
EOF
2 : broken / fields
Watch how spaces are duplicated around "/" in the output, because the
string " DESC " that separates the words 'broken' and 'fields' contains
two extra spaces around "DESC", the value of FS.
--
Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr >
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle]
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