crilex
Reputation: 21
Use AWK with delimiter to print specific columns
My file looks as follows:
+------------------------------------------+---------------+----------------+------------------+------------------+-----------------+
| Message | Status | Adress | Changes | Test | Calibration |
|------------------------------------------+---------------+----------------+------------------+------------------+-----------------|
| Hello World | Active | up | 1 | up | done |
| Hello Everyone Here | Passive | up | 2 | down | none |
| Hi there. My name is Eric. How are you? | Down | up | 3 | inactive | done |
+------------------------------------------+---------------+----------------+------------------+------------------+-----------------+
+----------------------------+---------------+----------------+------------------+------------------+-----------------+
| Message | Status | Adress | Changes | Test | Calibration |
|----------------------------+---------------+----------------+------------------+------------------+-----------------|
| What's up? | Active | up | 1 | up | done |
| Hi. I'm Otilia | Passive | up | 2 | down | none |
| Hi there. This is Marcus | Up | up | 3 | inactive | done |
+----------------------------+---------------+----------------+------------------+------------------+-----------------+
I want to extract a specific column using AWK. I can use CUT to do it; however when the length of each table varies depending on how many characters are present in each column, I'm not getting the desired output.
cat File.txt | cut -c -44
+------------------------------------------+
| Message |
|------------------------------------------+
| Hello World |
| Hello Everyone Here |
| Hi there. My name is Eric. How are you? |
+------------------------------------------+
+----------------------------+--------------
| Message | Status
|----------------------------+--------------
| What's up? | Active
| Hi. I'm Otilia | Passive
| Hi there. This is Marcus | Up
+----------------------------+--------------
or
cat File.txt | cut -c 44-60
+---------------+
| Status |
+---------------+
| Active |
| Passive |
| Down |
+---------------+
--+--------------
| Adress
--+--------------
| up
| up
| up
--+--------------
I tried using AWK but I don't know how to add 2 different delimiters which would take care of all the lines.
cat File.txt | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|";}{print $2,$3}'
Message Status
------------------------------------------+---------------+----------------+------------------+------------------+-----------------
Hello World Active
Hello Everyone Here Passive
Hi there. My name is Eric. How are you? Down
Message Status
----------------------------+---------------+----------------+------------------+------------------+-----------------
What's up? Active
Hi. I'm Otilia Passive
Hi there. This is Marcus Up
The output I'm looking for:
+------------------------------------------+
| Message |
|------------------------------------------+
| Hello World |
| Hello Everyone Here |
| Hi there. My name is Eric. How are you? |
+------------------------------------------+
+----------------------------+
| Message |
|----------------------------+
| What's up? |
| Hi. I'm Otilia |
| Hi there. This is Marcus |
+----------------------------+
or
+------------------------------------------+---------------+
| Message | Status |
|------------------------------------------+---------------+
| Hello World | Active |
| Hello Everyone Here | Passive |
| Hi there. My name is Eric. How are you? | Down |
+------------------------------------------+---------------+
+----------------------------+---------------+
| Message | Status |
|----------------------------+---------------+
| What's up? | Active |
| Hi. I'm Otilia | Passive |
| Hi there. This is Marcus | Up |
+----------------------------+---------------+
or random other columns
+------------------------------------------+----------------+------------------+
| Message | Adress | Test |
|------------------------------------------+----------------+------------------+
| Hello World | up | up |
| Hello Everyone Here | up | down |
| Hi there. My name is Eric. How are you? | up | inactive |
+------------------------------------------+----------------+------------------+
+----------------------------+---------------+------------------+
| Message |Adress | Test |
|----------------------------+---------------+------------------+
| What's up? |up | up |
| Hi. I'm Otilia |up | down |
| Hi there. This is Marcus |up | inactive |
+----------------------------+---------------+------------------+
Thanks in advance.
Upvotes: 2
Views: 2798
Answers (2)
tshiono
Reputation: 22012
If GNU awk is available, please try markp-fuso's nice solution.
If not, here is a posix-compliant alternative:
#!/bin/bash
# define bash variables
cols=(2 3 6) # bash array of desired columns
col_list=$(IFS=,; echo "${cols[*]}") # create a csv string
awk -v cols="$col_list" '
NR==FNR {
if (match($0, /^[|+]/)) { # the record contains a table
if (match($0, /^[|+]-/)) # horizontally ruled line
n = split($0, a, /[|+]/) # split into columns
else # "cell" line
n = split($0, a, /\|/)
len = 0
for (i = 1; i < n; i++) {
len += length(a[i]) + 1 # accumulated column position
pos[FNR, i] = len
}
}
next
}
{
n = split(cols, a, /,/) # split the variable `cols` on comma into an array
for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
col = a[i]
if (pos[FNR, col] && pos[FNR, col+1]) {
printf("%s", substr($0, pos[FNR, col], pos[FNR, col + 1] - pos[FNR, col]))
}
}
print(substr($0, pos[FNR, col + 1], 1))
}
' file.txt file.txt
Result with cols=(2 3 6) as shown above:
+---------------+----------------+-----------------+
| Status | Adress | Calibration |
+---------------+----------------+-----------------|
| Active | up | done |
| Passive | up | none |
| Down | up | done |
+---------------+----------------+-----------------+
+---------------+----------------+-----------------+
| Status | Adress | Calibration |
+---------------+----------------+-----------------|
| Active | up | done |
| Passive | up | none |
| Up | up | done |
+---------------+----------------+-----------------+
It detects the column width in the 1st pass then splits the line on the column position in the 2nd pass.
You can control the columns to print with the bash array cols which is assigned at the beginning of the script. Please assign the array to the list of desired column numbers in increasing order. If you want to use the bash variable in different way, please let me know.
Upvotes: 1
markp-fuso
Reputation: 34044
One idea using GNU awk:
awk -v fldlist="2,3" '
BEGIN { fldcnt=split(fldlist,fields,",") } # split fldlist into array fields[]
{ split($0,arr,/[|+]/,seps) # split current line on dual delimiters "|" and "+"
for (i=1;i<=fldcnt;i++) # loop through our array of fields (fldlist)
printf "%s%s", seps[fields[i]-1], arr[fields[i]] # print leading separator/delimiter and field
printf "%s\n", seps[fields[fldcnt]] # print trailing separator/delimiter and terminate line
}
' File.txt
NOTES:
- requires
GNU awkfor the 4th argument to thesplit()function (seps== array of separators; see gawk string functions for details) - assumes our field delimiters (
|,+) do not show up as part of the data - the input variable
fldlistis a comma-delimited list of columns that mimics what would be passed tocut(eg, when a line starts with a delimiter then field #1 is blank)
For fldlist="2,3" this generates:
+------------------------------------------+---------------+
| Message | Status |
|------------------------------------------+---------------+
| Hello World | Active |
| Hello Everyone Here | Passive |
| Hi there. My name is Eric. How are you? | Down |
+------------------------------------------+---------------+
+----------------------------+---------------+
| Message | Status |
|----------------------------+---------------+
| What's up? | Active |
| Hi. I'm Otilia | Passive |
| Hi there. This is Marcus | Up |
+----------------------------+---------------+
For fldlist="2,4,6" this generates:
+------------------------------------------+----------------+------------------+
| Message | Adress | Test |
|------------------------------------------+----------------+------------------+
| Hello World | up | up |
| Hello Everyone Here | up | down |
| Hi there. My name is Eric. How are you? | up | inactive |
+------------------------------------------+----------------+------------------+
+----------------------------+----------------+------------------+
| Message | Adress | Test |
|----------------------------+----------------+------------------+
| What's up? | up | up |
| Hi. I'm Otilia | up | down |
| Hi there. This is Marcus | up | inactive |
+----------------------------+----------------+------------------+
For fldlist="4,3,2" this generates:
+----------------+---------------+------------------------------------------+
| Adress | Status | Message |
+----------------+---------------|------------------------------------------+
| up | Active | Hello World |
| up | Passive | Hello Everyone Here |
| up | Down | Hi there. My name is Eric. How are you? |
+----------------+---------------+------------------------------------------+
+----------------+---------------+----------------------------+
| Adress | Status | Message |
+----------------+---------------|----------------------------+
| up | Active | What's up? |
| up | Passive | Hi. I'm Otilia |
| up | Up | Hi there. This is Marcus |
+----------------+---------------+----------------------------+
Say that again? (fldlist="3,3,3"):
+---------------+---------------+---------------+
| Status | Status | Status |
+---------------+---------------+---------------+
| Active | Active | Active |
| Passive | Passive | Passive |
| Down | Down | Down |
+---------------+---------------+---------------+
+---------------+---------------+---------------+
| Status | Status | Status |
+---------------+---------------+---------------+
| Active | Active | Active |
| Passive | Passive | Passive |
| Up | Up | Up |
+---------------+---------------+---------------+
And if you make the mistake of trying to print the '1st' column, ie, fldlist="1":
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Upvotes: 1
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