Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 00:36:54 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time) From: Joseph Stein <joes@joescanner.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: awk- make that sed- question Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.42.0202050029330.1444-100000@hood.wstein.com>
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Apologies if this is not the appropriate forum for this, but...
An interesting problem.
I am massaging some "strangely" formatted text output using sed and awk.
The problem I am encountering is that some output lines are longer than
256 characters. I originally thought I was running into a problem in awk,
but it turns out that the data lines are being truncated by sed. I find
no mention of a maximum line length in the manual page for sed, and I'm
sure there is a way to defeat the problem.
The sed/awk pipeline I'm using looks like this:
sed -e 's/"//g' -e 's/;/,/g' -e 's/\(<0[0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F]\),/\1:/g'
-e 's/\([0-9]\),\([0-9]\)/\1\2/' filename | awk ' { FS="," ;
printf "\n%s\n", NF; print length($0); for (i=0; i<=NF; i++) print i ": "
$i; print $NF; } '
While I realize this is pretty ugly, it does what I need:
* remove all double quotes from input
* replace ; with ,
* change a comma in data that looks like <0372, 1123> to a colon
* remove the thousands separator in a number (231,445 => 231445)
The awk script is not exactly what I want right this second, but it
presents the data in the format I wish it to (almost) and I can tweak that
myself.
Any ideas?
joe
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Joseph Stein (KD7MLG) joes at joescanner dot com
Beaverton, OR USA
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