[vox-tech] Changing data with awk

[Mark K. Kim]

Field separator is not space.  BTW, found a better way:

   awk -F^ '{OFS="^"; $6=gensub(/\r/,"<cr>","",$6); print}' test.dat

           ...mark


On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Leo Rainer wrote:

> In awk you can directly modify individual fields so this should work:
>
>    awk -F^ '{$6=gensub(/\r/,"<cr>","",$6); print}' test.dat
>
>          ...leo
>
> At 03:36 PM 6/4/04, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> >Unfortunately that wouldn't work since Richard wants to modify the column
> >in the file, not strip it out at the same time he modifies it...  Unless
> >you know of some way to re-insert the modified column back into the file
> >(I don't.)  Good try, though.
> >
> >I'm not an awk expert but I'd guess you could do something like:
> >
> >   awk -F^ '{$6=gensub(/\r/,"<cr>","",$6);
> >            printf("%s^%s^%s^%s^%s^%s\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6)}' test.dat
> >
> >I'm sure someone's got a better idea that putting all those %s's...
> >
> >-Mark
> >
> >PS: Then there's PERL... =P
> >
> >
> >On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> >
> > > > I have a large flat file generated by SQL Loader that I'd like to mess
> > > > around with; specifically, I'd like to replace all of the carriage
> > returns
> > > > in one field with some other character, since they're messing up my data
> > > > load.
> > > >
> > > > I figured I'd use awk, since it's a pretty powerful little tool for
> > > > getting right to the data.  If I use:
> > > >
> > > > $ awk -F^ {print $6} test.dat
> > > >
> > > > I get the field that I want.  But how do I change the characters in that
> > > > field and replace them in test.dat?
> > >
> > >
> > > i recently had a similar problem: trying to convert
> > > this:
> > > 1<CR>
> > > 2<CR>
> > > 3<CR>
> > > ...
> > >
> > > into this: 1, 2, 3...
> > >
> > > here is how i did it:
> > >
> > > append a comma+space to the end of each line with sed
> > > then remove each CR using tr:
> > >
> > > sed -e 's/$/, /g' input_file | tr -d "\n" > output_file
> > >
> > > so something like this might do the trick:
> > >
> > > awk -F^ {print $6} test.dat | sed -e 's/$/, /g' | tr -d "\n" > output_file
> > >
> > >
> > > .. you would be left with one column of data that would have to be
> > > re-instered into the DB, or added back to the original file.
> > >
> > > the command 'paste' might be helpful for appending the data to the
> > > original...
> > >
> > >
> > > good luck!
> > >
> > > Dylan
> > >
> > >
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