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Awk not rendering any result

My goal is to get the file created in the current month in a directory. It seems that the command is correct but not rendering any result: Date=`date '+%b'` echo $Date Oct ls -l | awk -v d="$Date" ...
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Align text to center with padding on both sides

Is there an easy way to align text to the center with padding on both sides, with the column width being the longest line from the input? For example, this: aaa bbbb c ddddd ee will turn into this ...
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Printing fields using awk

< pool.sam awk ' /./ {printf $1} {printf $7+1,"\t"} {printf $3,"\t"} { if($2 !=16) {print "\t", "+";} else {print "\t","-";} {printf $4,"\t" ,length($10)+$4, "\t", "1"} }' I am ...
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How to add Multiple Searches in AWK command

Im trying to search for the files Created in June,July and August months. I used this method ls -lrth|awk '/[Jun][Jul][Aug]/ {print}' but it ain't working. Please help me correct the syntax.
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Regular Expressions within a string in AWK using if/then control structure?

PROBLEM I want to specifically use AWK (GAWK, MAWK, whatever) in an AWK script to sum up the values in field 9 for every record that contains "runner__.jpx" (the underscores are placeholders for two ...
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Comparing files line by line in awk with delimiter

file1: abc|123|check def|456|map ijk|789|globe lmn|101112|equator file2: abc|123|check def|456|map ijk|789|equator lmn|101112|globe EXPECTED OUTPUT: ijk|789|equator lmn|101112|globe Current ...
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Summing up an array inside of awk?

I have the following piece of code: sum1= sum2= declare -a a echo $temp | awk '{split($0,a,","); name=a[1] ; for(i=2;i<=4;i++) sum1+=a[i] ; for(i=5;i<=7;i++) sum2+=a[i] }' This code is ...
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Joining two files with unique identifier

I have two files with approximately 12900 and 4400 entries respectively, that I want to join. The files contain location information for all landbased weather observing stations around the globe. The ...
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Match multiple regular expressions from a single file using awk

I'm trying to parse a HTML file using shell scripting. There are 4 different regular expressions that i need to catch: name= , age= , classs= , marks=. Using grep "name=\|age=\|class=\|marks=" ...
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Using cut/awk/sed with two different delimiters

I have the following cases: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] I'm trying to convert these to [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] So it should remove everything from ...
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How to integrate a multiline awk script in a shell script

I am a beginner in shell scripting and my question is a continuation of How to parse a file to extract 3 digits numbers kept in a "group number" I am trying to integrate in a single shell ...
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Problem in splitting a string using awk or cut command

I have a properties file which has a password field (key value pair) PASSWORD=NDhhHcsOBofXUdUzGw5B0Q== I am trying to get the value in my shell script using the awk command password=`awk -F "=" ...
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Split long output into two columns

Is there a simple utility or script to columnate the output from one of my scripts? I have data in some form: A aldkhasdfljhaf B klajsdfhalsdfh C salkjsdjkladdag D lseuiorlhisnflkc E sdjklfhnslkdfhn ...
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checking data in columns when a data or some may be missing or present?

I am not sure if this possible. say i have columns like : Team Colour Game Rainfall PlayerName XYZ Blue Cricket Yes Kapil suppose i need to search ...
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Show sum of file sizes in directory listing

The Windows dir directory listing command has a line at the end showing the total amount of space taken up by the files listed. For example, dir *.exe shows all the .exe files in the current ...

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