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AWK: Print header line and pattern match

Posted by Sahil Suri | Oct 25, 2017 | Awk |

AWK is a powerful regular expression filtering and pattern matching scripting language. Please consider heading to awk tutorials section to read through our other awesome AWK tutorials which deep dive into different aspects of the language. In this tutorial, we look at how we can use AWK to print the header lines from a file or a command output along with the pattern being searched. While filtering output from certain commands or lengthy reports, it may be important to display the first line of the file or the header line to make sense of the rest of the output which is being displayed. Consider the below output. [sahil@linuxnix ~]$ df -hTP Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_pbox6-lv_root ext4 18G 4.9G 12G 30% / tmpfs tmpfs 491M 80K 491M 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 ext4 477M 35M 418M 8% /boot /dev/sr0 iso9660 3.7G 3.7G 0 100% /media/CentOS_6.8_Final /dev/sdb ext4 488M 396K 462M 1% /u01 /dev/sdc ext4 488M 396K 462M 1% /u02 We would like to print only the ext4 type file systems but along with the header line as well to make sense of the values indicated by the respective fields. We could use grep to meet this requirement as done in the below command [sahil@linuxnix ~]$ df -hTP | grep -E "Filesystem|ext4" Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_pbox6-lv_root ext4 18G 4.9G 12G 30% / /dev/sda1 ...

AWK ignore case(CAPS/lower) while patten search

Posted by Surendra Anne | Dec 27, 2014 | python |

Recently I come across a requirement to search for lines in a given file/files where the search term is mix of capital letters and small letters. Normally when we search with awk it search exactly what we try to search but not ignoring case. We can use grep to accomplish this task as sown below. grep -i 'available' files | awk '{print $1,$2}' But I don't want to use grep to do this as there is a way we can accomplish with just awk. We can specify ignoring case to AWK in three ways as mention below. Use AWK builtin variable called IGNORECASE enable ignore case switch with search pattern Use not so sophisticated method of using both cases in search term Let see these three in examples. Example1: Search for a word 'available' which some times written as Available or AVAILABLE. Using IGNORECASE AWK inbuilt variable example as below awk 'BEGIN{IGNORECASE=1} /available/{print $1}' filename BEGIN is an AWK keyword which is useful to execute awk code before actual AWK script. We are setting IGNORECASE before our actual AWK code execution. Example2: Search for word 'available' using 'i' switch so that my match will have both cases awk '/available/i {print $1}' filename if you observe after serach pattern we given /i which will help us to ignore case with our search term. Example3: Search for 'available' word with combination of cases which will not work...

Sed/paste/AWK/Perl: Merge or Join two lines

Posted by Surendra Anne | Dec 2, 2014 | python |

In this post we will see how to merge lines in a given file or standard output. sed 'N;s/n/ /' filename paste -d " " – – < filename

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AWK: Print header line and pattern match

AWK ignore case(CAPS/lower) while patten search

Sed/paste/AWK/Perl: Merge or Join two lines

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