I have table structure:
ous.txt 1452 1793 out.txt 36796 14997 ouw.txt 478
4247
3 columns & lots of rows.
I want to trim ".txt" - last 4 characters from the #1 column (with awk, sed).
I know that chopping the end of line was covered times here, but i don't know how to access the end of n-th collumn.
Based on your sample input, this would do it:
sed 's/\.txt//' filename
If I only wanted to operate on the 1st whitespace-delimted column, I'd use awk or just the shell:
while read -r col1 col2 col3; do
printf "%s %s %s\n" "${col1%.txt}" "$col2" "$col3"
done < filename
If you want to remove the last 4 characters of column 1:
awk '{sub(/....$/, "", $1)} 1' filename
If the columns are separated by spaces, but not tabs:
sed 's/.... / /' filename
Related
I want to extract lines that have a particular pattern, in a certain column. For example, in my 'input.txt' file, I have many columns. I want to search the 25th column for 'foobar', and extract only those lines that have 'foobar' in the 25th column. I cannot do:
grep foobar input.txt
because other columns may also have 'foobar', and I don't want those lines. Also:
the 25th column will have 'foobar' as part of a string (i.e. it could be 'foobar ; muller' or 'max ; foobar ; john', or 'tom ; foobar35')
I would NOT want 'tom ; foobar35'
The word in column 25 must be an exact match for 'foobar' (and ; so using awk $25=='foobar' is not an option.
In other words, if column 25 had the following lines:
foobar ; muller
max ; foobar ; john
tom ; foobar35
I would want only lines 1 & 2.
How do I use xargs and sed to extract these lines? I am stuck at:
cut -f25 input.txt | grep -nw foobar | xargs -I linenumbers sed ???
thanks!
Do not use xargs and sed, use the other tool common on so many machines and do this:
awk '{if($25=="foobar"){print NR" "$0}}' input.txt
print NR prints the line number of the current match so the first column of the output will be the line number.
print $0 prints the current line. Change it to print $25 if you only want the matching column. If you only want the output, use this:
awk '{if($25=="foobar"){print $0}}' input.txt
EDIT1 to match extended question:
Use what #shellter and #Jotne suggested but add string delimiters.
awk -vFPAT="([^ ]*)|('[^']*')" -vOFS=' ' '$25~/foobar/' input.txt
[^ ]* matches all characters that are not a space.
'[^']*' matches everything inside single quotes.
EDIT2 to exclude everything but foobar:
awk -vFPAT="([^ ]*)|('[^']*')" -vOFS=' ' "\$25~/[;' ]foobar[;' ]/" input.txt
[;' ] only allows ;, ' and in front and after foobar.
Tested with this file:
1 "1 ; 1" 4
2 'kom foobar' 33
3 "ll;3" 3
4 '1; foobar' asd
7 '5 ;foobar' 2
7 '5;foobar' 0
2 'kom foobar35' 33
2 'kom ; foobar' 33
2 'foobar ; john' 33
2 'foobar;paul' 33
2 'foobar1;paul' 33
2 'foobarli;paul' 33
2 'afoobar;paul' 33
and this command awk -vFPAT="([^ ]*)|('[^']*')" -vOFS=' ' "\$2~/[;' ]foobar[;' ]/" input.txt
To get the line with foobar as part of the 25 field.
awk '$25=="foobar"' input.txt
$25 25th filed
== equal to
"foobar"
Since no action spesified, print the complete line will be done, same as {print $0}
Or
awk '$25~/^foobar$/' input.txt
This might work for you (GNU sed):
sed -En 's/\S+/\n&\n/25;s/\n(.*foobar.*)\n/\1/p' file
Surround the 25th field by newlines and pattern match for foobar between newlines.
If you only want to match the word foobar use:
sed -En 's/\S+/\n&\n/25;s/\n(.*\<foobar\>.*)\n/\1/p' file
I'm trying to manipulate a dataset with sed so I can do it in a batch because the datasets have the same structure.
I've a dataset with two rows (first line in this example is the 7th row) like this:
Enginenumber; ABX 105;Productionnumber.;01 2345 67-
"",,8-9012
What I want:
Enginenumber; ABX 105;Productionnumber.;01 2345 67-8-9012
So the numbers (8-9012) in the second line have been added at the end of the first line because those numbers belong to each other
What I've tried:
sed '8s/7s/' file.csv
But that one does not work and I think that one will just replace whole row 7. The 8-9012 part is on row 8 of the file and I want that part added to row 7. Any ideas and is this possible?
Note: In the question's current form, a sed solution is feasible - this was not the case originally, where the last ;-separated field of the joined lines needed transforming as a whole, which prompted the awk solution below.
Joining lines 7 and 8 as-is, merely by removing the line break between them, can be achieved with this simple sed command:
sed '7 { N; s/\n//; }' file.csv
awk solution:
awk '
BEGIN { FS = OFS = ";" }
NR==7 { r = $0; getline; sub(/^"",,/, ""); $0 = r $0 }
1
' file.csv
Judging by the OP's comments, an additional problem is the presence of CRLF line endings in the input. With GNU Awk or Mawk, adding RS = "\r\n" to the BEGIN block is sufficient to deal with this (or RS = ORS = "\r\n", if the output should have CRLF line endings too), but with BSD Awk, which only supports single-character input record separators, more work is needed.
BEGIN { FS = OFS = ";" } tells Awk to split the input lines into fields by ; and to also use ; on output (when rebuilding the line).
Pattern NR==7 matches input line 7, and executes the associated action ({...}) with it.
r = $0; getline stores line 7 ($0 contains the input line at hand) in variable r, then reads the next line (getline), at which point $0 contains line 8.
sub(/^"",,/, "") then removes substring "",, from the start of line 8, leaving just 8-9012.
$0 = r $0 joins line 7 and modified line 8, and by assigning the concatenation back to $0, the string assigned is split into fields by ; anew, and the resulting fields are joined to form the new $0, separated by OFS, the output field separator.
Pattern 1 is a common shorthand that simply prints the (possibly modified) record at hand.
With sed:
sed '/^[^"]/{N;s/\n.*,//;}' file
/^[^"]/: search for lines not starting with ", and if found:
N: next line is appended to the pattern space
s/\n.*,//: all characters up to last , are removed from second line
I have a results.txt file that is structured in this format:
Uncharted 3: Javithaxx l Rampant l Graveyard l Team Deathmatch HD (D1VpWBaxR8c)
Matt Darey feat. Kate Louise Smith - See The Sun (Toby Hedges Remix) (EQHdC_gGnA0)
The Matrix State (SXP06Oax70o)
Above & Beyond - Group Therapy Radio 014 (guest Lange) (2013-02-08) (8aOdRACuXiU)
I want to create a new file extracting the youtube URL ID specified in the last characters in each line line "8aOdRACuXiU"
I'm trying to build a URL like this in a new file:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aOdRACuXiU&hd=1
Note, I appended the &hd=1 to the string that I am trying to be replaced. I have tried using Linux reverse and cut but reverse or rev munges my data. The hard part here is that each line in my text file will have entries with parentheses and I only care about getting the data between the last set of parentheses. Each line has a variable length so that isn't helpful either. What about using grep and .$ for the end of the line?
In summary, I want to extract the youtube ID from results.txt and export it to a new file in the following format: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aOdRACuXiU&hd=1
Using awk:
awk '{
v = substr( $NF, 2, length( $NF ) - 2 )
printf "%s%s%s\n", "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=", v, "&hd=1"
}' infile
It yields:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1VpWBaxR8c&hd=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQHdC_gGnA0&hd=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXP06Oax70o&hd=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aOdRACuXiU&hd=1
$ sed 's!.*(\(.*\))!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\1\&hd=1!' results.txt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1VpWBaxR8c&hd=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQHdC_gGnA0&hd=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXP06Oax70o&hd=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aOdRACuXiU&hd=1
Here, .*(\(.*\)) looks for the last occurrence of a pair of parentheses, and captures the characters inside those parentheses. The captured group is then inserted into the URL using \1.
Using a perl one-liner :
perl -lne 'printf "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s&hd=1\n", $& if /[^\(]+(?=\)$)/' file.txt
Or multi-line version :
perl -lne '
printf(
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s&hd=1\n",
$&
) if /[^\(]+(?=\)$)/
' file.txt
I would be happy if anyone can suggest me command (sed or AWK one line command) to divide each line of file in equal number of part. For example divide each line in 4 part.
Input:
ATGCATHLMNPHLNTPLML
Output:
ATGCA THLMN PHLNT PLML
This should work using GNU sed:
sed -r 's/(.{4})/\1 /g'
-r is needed to use extended regular expressions
.{4} captures every four characters
\1 refers to the captured group which is surrounded by the parenthesis ( ) and adds a space behind this group
g makes sure that the replacement is done as many times as possible on each line
A test; this is the input and output in my terminal:
$ echo "ATGCATHLMNPHLNTPLML" | sed -r 's/(.{4})/\1 /g'
ATGC ATHL MNPH LNTP LML
I suspect awk is not the best tool for this, but:
gawk --posix '{ l = sprintf( "%d", 1 + (length()-1)/4);
gsub( ".{"l"}", "& " ) } 1' input-file
If you have a posix compliant awk you can omit the --posix, but --posix is necessary for gnu awk and since that seems to be the most commonly used implementation I've given the solution in terms of gawk.
This might work for you (GNU sed):
sed 'h;s/./X/g;s/^\(.*\)\1\1\1/\1 \1 \1 \1/;G;s/\n/&&/;:a;/^\n/bb;/^ /s/ \(.*\n.*\)\n\(.\)/\1 \n\2/;ta;s/^.\(.*\n.*\)\n\(.\)/\1\2\n/;ta;:b;s/\n//g' file
Explanation:
h copy the pattern space (PS) to the hold space (HS)
s/./X/g replace every character in the HS with the same non-space character (in this case X)
s/^\(.*\)\1\1\1/\1 \1 \1 \1/ split the line into 4 parts (space separated)
G append a newline followed by the contents of the HS to the PS
s/\n/&&/ double the newline (to be later used as markers)
:a introduce a loop namespace
/^\n/bb if we reach a newline we are done and branch to the b namespace
/^ /s/ \(.*\n.*\)\n\(.\)/\1 \n\2/;ta; if the first character is a space add a space to the real line at this point and repeat
s/^.\(.*\n.*\)\n\(.\)/\1\2\n/;ta any other character just bump along and repeat
:b;s/\n//g all done just remove the markers and print out the result
This work for any length of line, however is the line is not exactly divisible by 4 the last portion will contain the remainder as well.
perl
perl might be a better choice here:
export cols=4
perl -ne 'chomp; $fw = 1 + int length()/$ENV{cols}; while(/(.{1,$fw})/gm) { print $1 . " " } print "\n"'
This re-calculates field-width for every line.
coreutils
A GNU coreutils alternative, field-width is chosen based on the first line of infile:
cols=4
len=$(( $(head -n1 infile | wc -c) - 1 ))
fw=$(echo "scale=0; 1 + $len / 4" | bc)
cut_arg=$(paste -d- <(seq 1 $fw 19) <(seq $fw $fw $len) | head -c-1 | tr '\n' ',')
Value of cut_arg is in the above case:
1-5,6-10,11-15,16-
Now cut the line into appropriate chunks:
cut --output-delimiter=' ' -c $cut_arg infile
I have a file which contains "title" written in it many times. How can I find the number of times "title" is written in that file using the sed command provided that "title" is the first string in a line? e.g.
# title
title
title
should output the count = 2 because in first line title is not the first string.
Update
I used awk to find the total number of occurrences as:
awk '$1 ~ /title/ {++c} END {print c}' FS=: myFile.txt
But how can I tell awk to count only those lines having title the first string as explained in example above?
Never say never. Pure sed (although it may require the GNU version).
#!/bin/sed -nf
# based on a script from the sed info file (info sed)
# section 4.8 Numbering Non-blank Lines (cat -b)
# modified to count lines that begin with "title"
/^title/! be
x
/^$/ s/^.*$/0/
/^9*$/ s/^/0/
s/.9*$/x&/
h
s/^.*x//
y/0123456789/1234567890/
x
s/x.*$//
G
s/\n//
h
:e
$ {x;p}
Explanation:
#!/bin/sed -nf
# run sed without printing output by default (-n)
# using the following file as the sed script (-f)
/^title/! be # if the current line doesn't begin with "title" branch to label e
x # swap the counter from hold space into pattern space
/^$/ s/^.*$/0/ # if pattern space is empty start the counter at zero
/^9*$/ s/^/0/ # if pattern space starts with a nine, prepend a zero
s/.9*$/x&/ # mark the position of the last digit before a sequence of nines (if any)
h # copy the marked counter to hold space
s/^.*x// # delete everything before the marker
y/0123456789/1234567890/ # increment the digits that were after the mark
x # swap pattern space and hold space
s/x.*$// # delete everything after the marker leaving the leading digits
G # append hold space to pattern space
s/\n// # remove the newline, leaving all the digits concatenated
h # save the counter into hold space
:e # label e
$ {x;p} # if this is the last line of input, swap in the counter and print it
Here are excerpts from a trace of the script using sedsed:
$ echo -e 'title\ntitle\nfoo\ntitle\nbar\ntitle\ntitle\ntitle\ntitle\ntitle\ntitle\ntitle\ntitle' | sedsed-1.0 -d -f ./counter
PATT:title$
HOLD:$
COMM:/^title/ !b e
COMM:x
PATT:$
HOLD:title$
COMM:/^$/ s/^.*$/0/
PATT:0$
HOLD:title$
COMM:/^9*$/ s/^/0/
PATT:0$
HOLD:title$
COMM:s/.9*$/x&/
PATT:x0$
HOLD:title$
COMM:h
PATT:x0$
HOLD:x0$
COMM:s/^.*x//
PATT:0$
HOLD:x0$
COMM:y/0123456789/1234567890/
PATT:1$
HOLD:x0$
COMM:x
PATT:x0$
HOLD:1$
COMM:s/x.*$//
PATT:$
HOLD:1$
COMM:G
PATT:\n1$
HOLD:1$
COMM:s/\n//
PATT:1$
HOLD:1$
COMM:h
PATT:1$
HOLD:1$
COMM::e
COMM:$ {
PATT:1$
HOLD:1$
PATT:title$
HOLD:1$
COMM:/^title/ !b e
COMM:x
PATT:1$
HOLD:title$
COMM:/^$/ s/^.*$/0/
PATT:1$
HOLD:title$
COMM:/^9*$/ s/^/0/
PATT:1$
HOLD:title$
COMM:s/.9*$/x&/
PATT:x1$
HOLD:title$
COMM:h
PATT:x1$
HOLD:x1$
COMM:s/^.*x//
PATT:1$
HOLD:x1$
COMM:y/0123456789/1234567890/
PATT:2$
HOLD:x1$
COMM:x
PATT:x1$
HOLD:2$
COMM:s/x.*$//
PATT:$
HOLD:2$
COMM:G
PATT:\n2$
HOLD:2$
COMM:s/\n//
PATT:2$
HOLD:2$
COMM:h
PATT:2$
HOLD:2$
COMM::e
COMM:$ {
PATT:2$
HOLD:2$
PATT:foo$
HOLD:2$
COMM:/^title/ !b e
COMM:$ {
PATT:foo$
HOLD:2$
. . .
PATT:10$
HOLD:10$
PATT:title$
HOLD:10$
COMM:/^title/ !b e
COMM:x
PATT:10$
HOLD:title$
COMM:/^$/ s/^.*$/0/
PATT:10$
HOLD:title$
COMM:/^9*$/ s/^/0/
PATT:10$
HOLD:title$
COMM:s/.9*$/x&/
PATT:1x0$
HOLD:title$
COMM:h
PATT:1x0$
HOLD:1x0$
COMM:s/^.*x//
PATT:0$
HOLD:1x0$
COMM:y/0123456789/1234567890/
PATT:1$
HOLD:1x0$
COMM:x
PATT:1x0$
HOLD:1$
COMM:s/x.*$//
PATT:1$
HOLD:1$
COMM:G
PATT:1\n1$
HOLD:1$
COMM:s/\n//
PATT:11$
HOLD:1$
COMM:h
PATT:11$
HOLD:11$
COMM::e
COMM:$ {
COMM:x
PATT:11$
HOLD:11$
COMM:p
11
PATT:11$
HOLD:11$
COMM:}
PATT:11$
HOLD:11$
The ellipsis represents lines of output I omitted here. The line with "11" on it by itself is where the final count is output. That's the only output you'd get when the sedsed debugger isn't being used.
Revised answer
Succinctly, you can't - sed is not the correct tool for the job (it cannot count).
sed -n '/^title/p' file | grep -c
This looks for lines starting title and prints them, feeding the output into grep to count them. Or, equivalently:
grep -c '^title' file
Original answer - before the question was edited
Succinctly, you can't - it is not the correct tool for the job.
grep -c title file
sed -n /title/p file | wc -l
The second uses sed as a surrogate for grep and sends the output to 'wc' to count lines. Both count the number of lines containing 'title', rather than the number of occurrences of title.
You could fix that with something like:
cat file |
tr ' ' '\n' |
grep -c title
The 'tr' command converts blanks into newlines, thus putting each space separated word on its own line, and therefore grep only gets to count lines containing the word title. That works unless you have sequences such as 'title-entitlement' where there's no space separating the two occurrences of title.
I don't think sed would be appropriate, unless you use it in a pipeline to convert your file so that the word you need appears on separate lines, and then use grep -c to count the occurrences.
I like Jonathan's idea of using tr to convert spaces to newlines. The beauty of this method is that successive spaces get converted to multiple blank lines but it doesn't matter because grep will be able to count just the lines with the single word 'title'.
just one gawk command will do. Don't use grep -c because it only counts line with "title" in it, regardless of how many "title"s there are in the line.
$ more file
# title
# title
one
two
#title
title title
three
title junk title
title
four
fivetitlesixtitle
last
$ awk '!/^#.*title/{m=gsub("title","");total+=m}END{print "total: "total}' file
total: 7
if you just want "title" as the first string, use "==" instead of ~
awk '$1 == "title"{++c}END{print c}' file
sed 's/title/title\n/g' file | grep -c title
This might work for you:
sed '/^title/!d' file | sed -n '$='