Awk/examples

Search for $var in * files
This script get a value from listOfValues.txt and searches through all .dat files in the /data directory it pulls out the data in Colom 4 and apends it to one line of output we should really use Vars instead of filensmes and all that nice stuff but hay =)

searchData.ksh echo > listOfMatchedData.txt
 * 1) !bin/ksh

for x in `cat listOfValues.txt`; do

awk ' $4 ~ /'$x'/ {found=found", "$1}; END { print "'$x'" found } ' data/*.dat >> listOfMatchedData.txt

done

$4 means test colom 4

~ = partal match

/'$x'/ = /y/ says patern match, '$x' i used quotes becouse im using a varable from outside of awk.

{found=found", "$1} apends a, and data from colom 1 to the varible found

END = exacutes this code after the last file has been closed

{ print "'$x'" found } prints out $x (the value we were searching for) again i quoted this value as before and the found data

listOfValues.txt

big cup sox

data/2005.dat size 0 t itsbig thing 1 e teacup magic 2 g holysox

data/2006.dat notsmall 0 t itsbig FnoRd 1 e teabag fNORd 2 g longsox

listOfMatchedData.txt big, size, notsmall cup, thing sox, magic, longsox

List the partitions using more than 70% of disk partition space.
$5 represants column number to be compared and 70 is the value to be compared.

df -k | awk '$5 > 70'

Match a field and do something
if field 2 "starts with LR" and "ends with -A"


 * 1) !/bin/ksh

awk -F, ' { if ( $2 ~ /^LR-/ && $2 ~ /-A$/ ) { print $2 } } ' output.txt > outputA.txt