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From: "Joachim Fahnenmueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: Text processing help (sed?)
> Hi Bruce,
>
> awk is a quite powerful tool for that sort of thing.
>
> Its basic structure is
> /pattern/ {action}
> i. e. it reads a line from the input file and if the line matches
/pattern/ it
> does {action} (e. g. write the line to output or write "," instead).
>
> It is described very well in the manpage.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:03:58PM -0500, BruceG wrote:
> > Hey all, not a Debian specific question. I am working with some CSV
files.
> > Daily extracts. I was able to combine them all with cat, then yank out
the
> > records I needed and popped then in a smaller file using grep. Finally
> > yanked duplicates using sort < file | uniq -d
> >
> > Now comes the hard part. Each record begins with the date and hour. When
I
> > graph a month's worth of data, the graphs get nuts, so I want to remove
> > specific entries from each line. Specifically, I want to replace the
entry
> > with a comma. A sample of the file is below:
> > Date,TargetName ifIndex IfDescr,AvgIn,AvgOut,MaxIn,MaxOut
> >
> > 10/17/2003 0:00,10.2.1.101 127 10/100 utp ethernet (cat
> > 3/5),0.12,0.04,0.18,0.05
> >
>
> HTH
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> Joachim Fahnenmüller
>
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Thanks Joachim - I'll check out the manpage.
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