All Questions
4
questions
2
votes
1
answer
180
views
awking for command options from man page
I am trying to auto-generate tab-completions for different commands. I am piping man pages for different commands into awk, then searching for command line options (eg. -shortopt --long-option) ...
- 21
1
vote
3
answers
205
views
how to filter inner quotes? [closed]
is it possible to filter, i.e to put ESC in front of the inner quotes with sed, awk or other *NIX tool (no perl/python)?
Example (revised):
$ echo label=\"123 \"456\" 789\" \"AB C\" e f gh | magic-...
- 125
3
votes
2
answers
4k
views
Define a variable to awk pattern matching from bash
I am trying to grab 100 lines after the text "time: X" with X in {0,40,80,...,200}. Here is what I have so far:
#!/bin/bash
start=1
end=5
for i in $(seq $start $end);do
j=$(($i*40))
awk '/time: ...
- 31
3
votes
3
answers
703
views
Why awk understand FS="*" but not for FS="-*-"?
I got a test file, its content is:
a -*- b
I used awk 'BEGIN {FS="*"} {print $2}' test, it prints out
- b
Correct! But when I use awk 'BEGIN {FS="-*-"} {print $2}' test, I got:
*
I know that FS ...
- 7,677