New subject: Really awkward text parsing shell script question

14 Aug 2009


      Mephi wrote:
...
I need to add a value to the 25th item in each line. Other than knowing that value is
numeric and 10 characters long, I don't know anything more about it.
running the command:
sed -n -e '/text/p' "log _20090814_162009" | awk '{print $25}' 
gives:
1363231555
...
I need to able to make them look like:
1000000001363231555
...
Just prepend it to the field before printing them:
awk '{$25="100000000"$25; print}'
for example:
mak@yoda:~$ echo "a 1363231555 c d" | awk '{$2="100000000"$2; print}'
    a 1000000001363231555 c d
-- Martijn

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