awk

output

[!NOTE]

[!TIP|label:original content]

$ cat sample.txt
job salary
c++ 13
java 14
php 12
$ awk '{
          for ( i=1; i<=NF; i++ ) arr[i] = (arr[i]? arr[i] FS $i: $i)
        } END {
          for ( i in arr ) print arr[i]
        }
      ' sample.txt

job c++ java php
salary 13 14 12
  • or

    $ echo -e "job c++ java php\nsalary 13 14 12" |
      awk '{ for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) a[i][NR]=$i }
           END { for(i in a) for(j in a[i]) printf "%s"(j==NR?RS:FS), a[i][j] }
          ' "${1+FS=$1}" |
      column -t
    job   salary
    c++   13
    java  14
    php   12
    
    # or
    $ echo -e "job c++ java php\nsalary 13 14 12" |
      awk '{ for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) a[i,NR]=$i; max=(max<NF?NF:max) }
             END { for (i=1; i<=max; i++)
                   { for (j=1; j<=NR; j++) printf "%s%s", a[i,j], ( j==NR?RS:FS ) }
                 }
          '
    job salary
    c++ 13
    java 14
    php 12
  • or

    $ awk ' { for (i=1; i<=NF; i++)  {a[NR,i] = $i} }
              NF > p { p = NF }
              END { for(j=1; j<=p; j++) {
                      str=a[1,j]
                      for(i=2; i<=NR; i++){
                          str=str" "a[i,j];
                      }
                      print str
                    }
                  }
          ' <<INPUT
    X column1 column2 column3
    row1 0 1 2
    row2 3 4 5
    row3 6 7 8
    row4 9 10 11
    INPUT
    
    X row1 row2 row3 row4
    column1 0 3 6 9
    column2 1 4 7 10
    column3 2 5 8 11

$ rs -T -c, -C, <<INPUT
  a,b,c
  ,x,y
  11,22,33
  INPUT
a,,11,
b,x,22,
c,y,33,

# with default `-C`
$ rs -T -c, <<INPUT
a,b,c
,x,y
11,22,33
INPUT
a                                                       11
b                           x                           22
c                           y                           33

[!NOTE|label:references:]

$ echo -e "job c++ java php\nsalary 13 14 12" |
  datamash transpose -t ' ' |
  column -t
job   salary
c++   13
java  14
php   12

$ tail -f file | awk '{now=strftime("%F %T%z\t");sub(/^/, now);print}'

reverse words

[!NOTE]

$ echo -e '5 5 0 0 622 20\n6 3 2 0 439 8\n5 2 3 0 450 12' | column -t
  5  5  0  0  622  20
  6  3  2  0  439  8
  5  2  3  0  450  12

$ echo -e '5 5 0 0 622 20\n6 3 2 0 439 8\n5 2 3 0 450 12' |
  awk '{ for(i=NF;i>0;--i) printf "%s%s",$i,(i>1?OFS:ORS) }' |
  column -t
20  622  0  0  5  5
8   439  0  2  3  6
12  450  0  3  2  5

# or
$ echo -e '5 5 0 0 622 20\n6 3 2 0 439 8\n5 2 3 0 450 12' |
  awk '{ do printf "%s" (NF>1?FS:RS),$NF; while(--NF) }' |
  column -t
20  622  0  0  5  5
8   439  0  2  3  6
12  450  0  3  2  5

# or
$ echo -e '5 5 0 0 622 20\n6 3 2 0 439 8\n5 2 3 0 450 12' |
  awk '{ i=NF; while(i) printf "%s",$i (i-->1?FS:RS) }' |
  column -t
20  622  0  0  5  5
8   439  0  2  3  6
12  450  0  3  2  5

# or
$ echo -e '5 5 0 0 622 20\n6 3 2 0 439 8\n5 2 3 0 450 12' |
  awk '{ for (i=NF; i>1; i--) printf("%s ",$i); print $1; }' |
  column -t
20  622  0  0  5  5
8   439  0  2  3  6
12  450  0  3  2  5

# or
$ echo -e '5 5 0 0 622 20\n6 3 2 0 439 8\n5 2 3 0 450 12' |
  awk '{ for (i=NF; i>0; i--) printf("%s ",$i); printf("\n") }' |
  column -t
20  622  0  0  5  5
8   439  0  2  3  6
12  450  0  3  2  5

align

[!NOTE]

add header

[!NOTE|label:references:]

$ cat a.txt
CGRT,630,SC063P1
10001,X,6849
10003,X,6913
10005,X,6977
CGRT,631,SC063P2
10049,X,8481
10051,X,8545
10081,X,1185
CGRT,632,SC063P3
10110,X,1601
10111,X,1633

$ awk '!/^[0-9]/{h=$0;next}{print h,$0}' a.txt
CGRT,630,SC063P1 10001,X,6849
CGRT,630,SC063P1 10003,X,6913
CGRT,630,SC063P1 10005,X,6977
CGRT,631,SC063P2 10049,X,8481
CGRT,631,SC063P2 10051,X,8545
CGRT,631,SC063P2 10081,X,1185
CGRT,632,SC063P3 10110,X,1601
CGRT,632,SC063P3 10111,X,1633

# or
$ awk '/^[a-zA-Z]/{val=$0;next} {print val "\t" $0}' a.txt

# or via sed
$ sed '/^[^0-9]/h;//d;G;s/\(.*\)\n\(.*\)/\2 \1/'

right/left alignment

$ printf '|%-5s|\n' a ab abc abcd abcde
|a    |
|ab   |
|abc  |
|abcd |
|abcde|

$ printf '|%5s|\n' a ab abc abcd abcde
|    a|
|   ab|
|  abc|
| abcd|
|abcde|

$ printf '|%.5s|\n' a ab abc abcd abcde
|a|
|ab|
|abc|
|abcd|
|abcde|

alignment with fixed column

$ cat -pp a.txt
ABCEFGH  K
ABCDE  FGH
ABCD  EFG
ABCDE FGH
ABCDE

$ awk -v tgt=10 'length($0)<tgt{gsub(/ /,""); $0=substr($0,1,4) sprintf("%*s",tgt-length($0),"") substr($0,5)} 1' a.txt
ABCEFGH  K
ABCDE  FGH
ABCD   EFG
ABCD  EFGH
ABCD     E

# or
$ awk -v l=10 -v i=4 'length($0)>=l{print; next}
                      {
                      gsub(/ /,"")
                      s1=substr($0,1,i)
                      s2=substr($0,i+1,length($0))
                      printf "%s%*s%s\n",s1,l-length($0)," ",s2
                      }' a.txt

append space

[!NOTE]

# 2 extra empty space, 22 chars per line in linux
$ cal | wc -L
22
$ cal | command cat -e
    January 2024      $
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  $
    1  2  3  4  5  6  $
 7  8  9 10 11 12 13  $
14 15 16 17 18 19 20  $
21 22 23 24 25 26 27  $
28 29 30 31           $

# remove trailing space and empty lines
$ cal | sed 's/[ \t]*$//' | sed '/^[[:space:]]*$/d' | command cat -e
    January 2024$
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa$
    1  2  3  4  5  6$
 7  8  9 10 11 12 13$
14 15 16 17 18 19 20$
21 22 23 24 25 26 27$
28 29 30 31$

# append spaces to the length of longest line ( 20 )
$ cal | sed 's/[ \t]*$//' | sed '/^[[:space:]]*$/d' | awk '{printf "%-20s\n", $0}' | command cat -e
    January 2024    $
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa$
    1  2  3  4  5  6$
 7  8  9 10 11 12 13$
14 15 16 17 18 19 20$
21 22 23 24 25 26 27$
28 29 30 31         $

# tput cub 20 works for every single lines
  • and more

    $ command cat file
    jlsf
    slf
    asdfasfs
    sd
    
    $ awk 'FNR==NR{ t=(length>=t)?length:t;next }length<t{ for(o=1;o<=t-length;o++)s=s "|";$0=$0s;s="" }1' file file
    jlsf||||
    slf|||||
    asdfasfs
    sd||||||

convert csv format

$ awk 'BEGIN {FS = ","; OFS = "\t"} {$1 = $1} 1' <<DATA
a,b,c
,x,y
dd,ee,ff
DATA
a   b   c
    x   y
dd  ee  ff

removal

remove non-duplicated lines

pre-condition

$ cat sample.txt | xargs
a a b c d e e e f
$ awk '{ print $1 }' sample.txt | sort | uniq -cd | sort -g
  • or

    $ awk '{ arr[$1]++ } END {
             for (key in arr) {
               if ( arr[key] > 1 ){ print arr[key], key }
             }
           }' \
      sample.txt
  • show only duplicated lines

    $ awk 'seen[$1]++' sample.txt
    • show only non-duplicated lines

      $ awk '!seen[$1]++' sample.txt

combination

[!NOTE|label:references:]

[!NOTE] objective: git status + git diff --stat

awk 'FNR==NR { map[$1]=$2" "$3" "$4 }
     FNR != NR { if ($2 in map) {print $0, map[$2]} else { print $0 } }
    ' <(git --no-pager diff --stat --relative | head -n-1 ) <(git status -sb)

## main
 M a | 2 ++
?? b

# better solution
declare gdiff
gdiff=$(git --no-pager diff --stat --relative | head -n-1)
awk 'FNR==NR { k=$1; $1=""; map[k]=$0; next } { print $0 map[$2] }' \
    <(echo -e "${gdiff}") <(git status -sb)

show matched values

  • find distrib name from /etc/lsb-release

    $ awk -F= '$1 == "DISTRIB_ID" {print $2;}' /etc/lsb-release
    Ubuntu
    
    # or
    $ awk -F= '$1=="ID" {print $2;}' /etc/os-release
    ubuntu
  • find multiple matches

    $ awk -F= '$1 ~ /DISTRIB_ID|DISTRIB_RELEASE/ {print $2;}' /etc/lsb-release
    Ubuntu
    18.04
  • return true or false according to matches result

    $ standard='2cf1b1652a5b268ec80717ef33fef111'
    $ md5sum ~/.bashrc | awk '$1 != "${standard}" {exit 1}'
    
    # or
    $ md5sum ~/.bashrc | awk '$1 == "${standard}" {print "true"}'

split

$ echo "12:34:56" |
      awk '{
        len = split( $0, a, ":" ) ;
        for( i=1; i <=len; i++ ) {
          print "a["i"] = "a[i] ;
        }
        print "length = "len
      }'
a[1] = 12
a[2] = 34
a[3] = 56
length = 3
  • split with result

[!NOTE|label:real situation]

  • original string

    > git config --list --show-origin --name-only | head -3
    file:C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig   diff.astextplain.textconv
    file:C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig   filter.lfs.clean
    file:C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig   filter.lfs.smudge
        +-------------------------------------------------------+
                          wanted string
  • filter via :

    REM file:C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig   filter.lfs.smudge
    REM +---+-+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    REM   |  |                                        |
    REM   v  v                                        v
    REM   $1 $2                                       $3
    
    > git config --list --show-origin --name-only | head -3 | awk -F: '{print $2}'
    C
    C
    C
    > git config --list --show-origin --name-only | head -3 | awk -F: '{print $3}'
    /Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig  diff.astextplain.textconv
    /Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig  filter.lfs.clean
    /Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig  filter.lfs.smudge
REM via split

REM  "FS"                                  $2
REM   |                                    |
REM   v                                    v
REM  ___ ___________________________________________________________________________
REM |   |                                                                           |
REM file:C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig   filter.lfs.smudge
REM     +                                                       +   +               +
REM     .........................................................   .................
REM                              v                                          v
REM                           arr[1]                                     arr[2]

> git config --list --show-origin --name-only | head -3 | awk 'BEGIN { FS="file:" }; { print $2 }'
C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig        diff.astextplain.textconv
C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig        filter.lfs.clean
C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig        filter.lfs.smudge

> git config --list --show-origin --name-only | head -3 | awk 'BEGIN { FS="file:" }; { n=split($2, arr, " "); print arr[1] }'
C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig
C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig
C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig

last n columns

last 2 columns

$ echo {a..z} | xargs -n4
a b c d
e f g h
i j k l
m n o p
q r s t
u v w x
y z

$ echo {a..z} | xargs -n4 | awk '{ print $(NF-1), $NF }'
c d
g h
k l
o p
s t
w x
y z

# better solution
$ echo {a..z} | xargs -n5
a b c d e
f g h i j
k l m n o
p q r s t
u v w x y
z
$ echo {a..z} | xargs -n5 |
  awk 'NF == 1 { printf ("%3s", $NF) };
       NF >= 2 { print $(NF-1), $NF }
      '
d e
i j
n o
s t
x y
  z

# or `NF && NF-1`
$ echo {a..z} | xargs -n5 |
  awk 'NF == 1    { printf ("%3s", $NF) };
       NF && NF-1 { print $(NF-1), $NF }
      '

second-to-last column ( --NF )

$ seq 12 | xargs -n5 | awk '{ NF--; print $NF }'
4
9
11

$ awk '{ print substr($0,index($0,$6)) }' <<INPUT
  f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6 f7 f8 f9 f10
  c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 c7 c8 c9 c10
  INPUT
f6 f7 f8 f9 f10
c6 c7 c8 c9 c10

# or
$ awk '{for (i=6; i<=NF; i++) printf("%s%s", $i,(i==NF)? "\n" : OFS) }' <<INPUT
  f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6 f7 f8 f9 f10
  c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 c7 c8 c9 c10
  INPUT
f6 f7 f8 f9 f10
c6 c7 c8 c9 c10

# or
$ awk '{ for(i=6;i<=NF;i++) printf $i" "; print "" }' <<INPUT
  f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6 f7 f8 f9 f10
  c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 c7 c8 c9 c10
  INPUT
f6 f7 f8 f9 f10
c6 c7 c8 c9 c10

# or
$ awk '{ for(i=1;i<=5;i++) $i="";print }' <<INPUT
  f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6 f7 f8 f9 f10
  c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 c7 c8 c9 c10
  INPUT
     f6 f7 f8 f9 f10
     c6 c7 c8 c9 c10
  • via cut -f<n>-

    $ cut -d" " -f6- <<INPUT
      f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6 f7 f8 f9 f10
      c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 c7 c8 c9 c10
      INPUT
    f6 f7 f8 f9 f10
    c6 c7 c8 c9 c10

$ echo -e 'a.domain.com\nb.domain.com\nc.domain.com' |
  awk -F. -v OFS='.' '{ print $(NF-1), $NF }'
domain.com
domain.com
domain.com

trim

[!NOTE|label:references:]

# original string
$ echo "man(1), apropos(1), whatis(1) - display online manual documentation pages" |
  awk -F"(\\\([0-9]\\\),?)" \
        '{ printf "|%s|", $NF }'
| - display online manual documentation pages|
#^ space here

# remove leading & trailing space
$ echo "man(1), apropos(1), whatis(1) - display online manual documentation pages" |
  awk -F"(\\\([0-9]\\\),?)" \
        '{ gsub(/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$/, "", $NF); printf "|%s|", $NF}'
|- display online manual documentation pages|
#^ remove `-` and space after it

$ echo "man(1), apropos(1), whatis(1) - display online manual documentation pages" |
  awk -F"(\\\([0-9]\\\),?)" \
        '{ gsub(/^[ \t-?]+|[-? \t]+$/, "", $NF); printf "|%s|", $NF}'
|display online manual documentation pages|

calculate

length

longest line

[!NOTE] Longest line in a file

$ cat -pp /tmp/terminal-1
    January 2024
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
    1  2  3  4  5  6
 7  8  9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31

$ wc -L /tmp/terminal-1
20 /tmp/terminal-1

$ awk '{ if (length($0) > max) {max = length($0); maxline = $0} } END { print maxline }' /tmp/terminal-1
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa

$ awk '{print length, $0}' /tmp/terminal-1  | sort -nr
20 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
20  7  8  9 10 11 12 13
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
20 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
20     1  2  3  4  5  6
16     January 2024
11 28 29 30 31

longest filename

# in repo
$ fd | awk '{ print length " | " $0 }' | sort -rn | head -3
98 | programming/archive/maven/hello-world/src/main/java/com/juvenxu/mvnbook/helloworld/HelloWorld.java
83 | programming/archive/maven/hello-world/src/main/java/com/juvenxu/mvnbook/helloworld/
72 | programming/archive/maven/hello-world/src/main/java/com/juvenxu/mvnbook/

$ fd | awk '{ if (length($0) > max){ max = length($0); line = $0} } END { print max " | " line }'
98 | programming/archive/maven/hello-world/src/main/java/com/juvenxu/mvnbook/helloworld/HelloWorld.java
$ awk '{ for(i=1; i<=NF; i++) { print $i, length($i) } }' sample.txt
  • or using while

    $ while IFS= read -r line; do
      echo "${line}: ${#line}"
    done < <(cat sample.txt | xargs -n1 echo)

sum

[!NOTE|label:references:]

base on other column

[!NOTE]

#  `substr` to get 4-last chars of string `n--xxxx`
#                     v
$ awk 'NR > 1 { k = substr($2, 4); cnt[k] += $1 } { print }
       END
       { print "\nTOTAL:"; for (k in cnt) print cnt[k], k }
      ' <<INPUT
  No.ofRecord    FileName                   delimiter
  563394         1--UnixfileName.txt        28
  364794         2--UnixfileName.txt        28
  785895         3--UnixfileName.txt        28
  99778453       1--NextUnixFileName.txt    18
  95645453       2--NextUnixFileName.txt    18
  99745313       3--NextUnixFileName.txt    18
  INPUT

No.ofRecord    FileName                   delimiter
563394         1--UnixfileName.txt        28
364794         2--UnixfileName.txt        28
785895         3--UnixfileName.txt        28
99778453       1--NextUnixFileName.txt    18
95645453       2--NextUnixFileName.txt    18
99745313       3--NextUnixFileName.txt    18

TOTAL:
295169219 NextUnixFileName.txt
1714083 UnixfileName.txt

sum $4 base on $2 and print original

$ url='jira.sample.com'
$ project='MY_PROJECT'
$ sprint='SPRINT-1'
$ curl --silent --insecure --globoff -XGET "https://${url}/rest/api/2/search?jql=project%3D${project}%20AND%20Sprint%3D${sprint}&maxResults=100" |
  jq -r '.issues[] | [.key, .fields.status.name, .fields.created, .fields.customfield_10062] | join(" | ")' |
  sort -t'|' -k3 |
  column -t -s'|' -o'|' |
  awk -F'|' '{ map[$2]+=$4; print }; END { print "\nresult:"; for (key in map) { print key ": " map[key] } }'
JIRA-00 | Closed      | 2024-02-05T23:05:36.000-0800 | 1.0
JIRA-01 | Closed      | 2024-02-05T23:08:13.000-0800 | 1.0
JIRA-02 | Open        | 2024-02-06T19:35:12.000-0800 |
JIRA-05 | Open        | 2024-02-07T00:56:35.000-0800 | 1.0
JIRA-06 | Open        | 2024-02-07T00:56:50.000-0800 | 1.0
JIRA-07 | Open        | 2024-02-07T00:56:57.000-0800 | 1.0
JIRA-08 | Open        | 2024-02-07T00:57:06.000-0800 | 1.0
JIRA-09 | In Review   | 2024-02-07T00:57:21.000-0800 | 3.0
JIRA-10 | In Review   | 2024-02-07T00:57:29.000-0800 | 2.0
JIRA-11 | Open        | 2024-02-07T00:57:35.000-0800 | 2.0
JIRA-12 | Open        | 2024-02-07T00:57:42.000-0800 | 2.0
JIRA-13 | Open        | 2024-02-07T00:57:58.000-0800 | 2.0
JIRA-14 | Closed      | 2024-02-08T02:26:37.000-0800 | 0.5
JIRA-15 | Closed      | 2024-02-08T02:27:34.000-0800 | 0.5
JIRA-16 | In Progress | 2024-02-08T03:11:11.000-0800 | 1.5
JIRA-17 | In Progress | 2024-02-08T03:12:58.000-0800 | 0.5
JIRA-18 | In Progress | 2024-02-08T03:14:14.000-0800 | 1.5
JIRA-19 | In Progress | 2024-02-08T03:14:34.000-0800 | 0.5
JIRA-20 | In Progress | 2024-02-08T03:15:38.000-0800 | 1.5
JIRA-21 | In Progress | 2024-02-08T03:15:57.000-0800 | 0.5
JIRA-22 | Open        | 2024-02-08T03:18:30.000-0800 | 1.5
JIRA-23 | Open        | 2024-02-08T03:18:46.000-0800 | 0.5
JIRA-24 | Open        | 2024-02-09T00:11:31.000-0800 | 1.5
JIRA-25 | Open        | 2024-02-09T00:12:09.000-0800 | 0.5
JIRA-26 | Open        | 2024-02-09T00:12:45.000-0800 | 1.5
JIRA-27 | Open        | 2024-02-09T00:13:18.000-0800 | 0.5
JIRA-28 | Open        | 2024-02-09T00:14:03.000-0800 | 1.5
JIRA-29 | Open        | 2024-02-09T00:14:31.000-0800 | 0.5

result:
 Open        : 18
 In Progress : 6
 In Review   : 5
 Closed      : 3

sum before date

[!TIP|label:substr]

  • substr VS. original string:

    $ curl --silent --insecure --globoff -XGET "https://${url}/rest/api/2/search?jql=project%3D${project}%20AND%20Sprint%3D${sprint}&maxResults=100" |
      jq -r '.issues[] | [.key, .fields.status.name, .fields.created, .fields.customfield_10062] | join(" | ")' |
      sort -t'|' -k3 |
      column -t -s'|' -o'|' |
      awk -F '|' -v dateA="2024-02-08" '{ d=substr($3,2,10); if (dateA>d) {print d":"$3} }'
    2024-02-05: 2024-02-05T23:05:36.000-0800
    2024-02-05: 2024-02-05T23:08:13.000-0800
    2024-02-06: 2024-02-06T19:35:12.000-0800
    2024-02-07: 2024-02-07T00:56:35.000-0800
    2024-02-07: 2024-02-07T00:56:50.000-0800
    2024-02-07: 2024-02-07T00:56:57.000-0800
    2024-02-07: 2024-02-07T00:57:06.000-0800
    2024-02-07: 2024-02-07T00:57:21.000-0800
    2024-02-07: 2024-02-07T00:57:29.000-0800
    2024-02-07: 2024-02-07T00:57:35.000-0800
    2024-02-07: 2024-02-07T00:57:42.000-0800
    2024-02-07: 2024-02-07T00:57:58.000-0800
$ url='jira.sample.com'
$ project='MY_PROJECT'
$ sprint='SPRINT-1'
$ curl --silent --insecure --globoff -XGET "https://${url}/rest/api/2/search?jql=project%3D${project}%20AND%20Sprint%3D${sprint}&maxResults=100" |
  jq -r '.issues[] | [.key, .fields.status.name, .fields.created, .fields.customfield_10062] | join(" | ")' |
  sort -t'|' -k3 |
  column -t -s'|' -o'|' |
  awk -F '|'  -v dateA="2024-02-08" '{ d=substr($3,2,10); if (dateA>d) {print; sum+=$4} }; END { print "total: "sum }'
JIRA-00 | Closed      | 2024-02-05T23:05:36.000-0800 | 1.0
JIRA-01 | Closed      | 2024-02-05T23:08:13.000-0800 | 1.0
JIRA-02 | Open        | 2024-02-06T19:35:12.000-0800 |
JIRA-05 | Open        | 2024-02-07T00:56:35.000-0800 | 1.0
JIRA-06 | Open        | 2024-02-07T00:56:50.000-0800 | 1.0
JIRA-07 | Open        | 2024-02-07T00:56:57.000-0800 | 1.0
JIRA-08 | Open        | 2024-02-07T00:57:06.000-0800 | 1.0
JIRA-09 | In Review   | 2024-02-07T00:57:21.000-0800 | 3.0
JIRA-10 | In Review   | 2024-02-07T00:57:29.000-0800 | 2.0
JIRA-11 | Open        | 2024-02-07T00:57:35.000-0800 | 2.0
JIRA-12 | Open        | 2024-02-07T00:57:42.000-0800 | 2.0
JIRA-13 | Open        | 2024-02-07T00:57:58.000-0800 | 2.0
total: 17

sum $3 base on $1,$2

$ awk -F, '{array[$1","$2]+=$3} END { for (i in array) {print i"," array[i]}}' <<INPUT
  P1,gram,10
  P1,tree,12
  P1,gram,34
  P2,gram,23
  INPUT

P1,gram,44
P1,tree,12
P2,gram,23

sum $2 base on $1

$ awk '{array[$1]+=$2} END { for (i in array) {print i, "\t", array[i]} }' <<INPUT
 .sh 23
 .py 100
 .sh 10
 .py 5
 .c 43
 INPUT

.c   43
.sh  33
.py  105

# central alignment
$ awk '{array[$1]+=$2} END { for (i in array) {printf ("%10s | %s\n", i, array[i])} }' <<INPUT
 .sh 23
 .py 100
 .sh 10
 .py 5
 .c 43
 INPUT
        .c | 43
       .sh | 33
       .py | 105

sum lines by extension

$ fd --type f | xargs wc -l
  375 chars.md
  544 date.md
   25 date.sh
  255 params.md
   58 progressBar.sh
   15 progressBar2.sh
  205 tricky.md
  476 util.md
 1953 total

$ fd --type f |
  xargs wc -l |
  tac |
  sed -re 's/\s*([0-9]+)\s*[^\.]+(\.\w+)$/\1 \2/g' |
  awk 'NR == 1 { print }
       NR > 1  { array[$2]+=$1 } END { for (i in array) {printf ("%10s | %s\n", i, array[i])} }
      '
 1953 total
       .sh | 98
       .md | 1855

# another
$ fd --type f |
  xargs wc -l |
  tac |
  sed -re 's/\s*([0-9]+)\s*[^\.]+(\.\w+)$/\1 \2/g' |
  awk 'NR == 1 { print }
       NR > 1  { a[$NF]+=$1 } END { for(i in a){print i,a[i]} }
      '

summary mem for all users (ps aux)

$ awk '{sum += $1} END {print sum}' < <(ps -u marslo -o pmem)
  • or

    $ ps -u marslo -o pcpu,pmem,pid,command |
         awk '{sum += $2} END {print sum}'

summary all in nth column

$ echo 'chr19   10 11
        chr19   12 15
        chr19   11 29
        chr19   a0 20
       ' |
  awk '{SUM+=$3}END{print SUM}'
75

# alternative
$ echo 'chr19   10 11
        chr19   12 15
        chr19   11 29
        chr19   a0 20
       ' |
  awk '{count=count+$NF}END{print count}'           # the last column
# or
$ echo 'chr19   10 11
        chr19   12 15
        chr19   11 29
        chr19   a0 20
       ' |
  awk '{count=count+$3}END{print count}'            # the 3rd column

sum since nth line

$ echo 'chr19   10 11
        chr19   12 15
        chr19   11 29
        chr19   a0 20
       ' |
  awk 'NR>1 {SUM+=$3}END{print SUM}
64

sum for each column

[!NOTE|label:references:]

  • Calculate the sum

    $ cat budget.txt
    Budget Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Sun
    Mike   10  20  31  52  7   11
    Eggs   1   5   1   16  4   58
    Bread  22  36  17  8   21  16
    Butter 4   5   8   11  36  2
    Total
$ cat budget.txt |
  awk 'NR==1{print} NR>1 && $0!="Total" { rsum=0;for(i=2;i<=NF;i++){ a[i]+=$i;rsum+=$i }; printf "%s\t%3d\n",$0,rsum; fc=NF; a[NF+1]+=rsum } $1=="Total" { printf "Total\t";for(i=2;i<=fc;i++){ printf "%3d\t",a[i] }; printf "%3d\n",a[fc+1] }' |
  column -t
Budget  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Sun
Mike    10   20   31   52   7    11   131
Eggs    1    5    1    16   4    58   85
Bread   22   36   17   8    21   16   120
Butter  4    5    8    11   36   2    66
Total   37   66   57   87   68   87   402

# better format
$ cat budget.txt |
  awk 'NR==1 { print }
       NR>1 && $0!="Total" { rsum=0; for(i=2;i<=NF;i++){ a[i]+=$i;rsum+=$i }; printf ( "%s\t%3d\n",$0,rsum ); fc=NF; a[NF+1]+=rsum }
       $1=="Total" { printf "Total\t"; for(i=2;i<=fc;i++){ printf "%3d\t",a[i] }; printf ( "%3d\n",a[fc+1] ) }
      ' |
  column -t

calculate word count in a file

$ < sample.txt \
    tr -s ' ' '\n' |
    sort |
    uniq -c |
    awk '{print $2,$1}' |
    sort -gk2
  • or

    $ cat sample.txt |
          xargs -n1 echo |
          sort |
          uniq -c |
          awk '{print $2,$1}' |
          sort -gk2
  • or

    $ awk '{ for(w=1;w<=NF;w++) print $w }' sample.txt |
          sort |
          uniq -c |
          awk '{print $2,$1}' |
          sort -gk2

maximize & minimize

  • maximize and second maximize

    $ awk '{ for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) if($i>maxval) maxval=$i; }
             NR%4==0 { print maxval ; maxval= -1}' <<INPUT
        1 2 3
      4 5 6 7 7
      9 7 7 6 5
        4 3 2
        1 2 3
      4 6 7 7 7
      7 7 7 6 5
        4 3 2
    INPUT
    
    9
    7
    
    # alternative using array
    $ awk '{ x=split($0,a);asort(a);if(a[x]>maxval)maxval=a[x] }
             NR%4==0 { print maxval ; maxval= -1}'

field

multiple delimiters

[!NOTE]

  • -F"[..]"

    $ echo "  man(1), apropos(1), whatis(1) - display online manual documentation pages" |
      awk -F"[,-]" '{print $1, "\n", $2, "\n", $3, "\n", $4}'
      man(1)
      apropos(1)
      whatis(1)
      display online manual documentation pages
  • -F"(..)"

    [!TIP] the \ should be \\\ in "(..)"

    $ echo "man(1), apropos(1), whatis(1) - display online manual documentation pages" |
      awk -F"(\\\([0-9]\\\),?)" \
          '{ for(i=1;i<NF;i++) {
               sub(/ +/, "", $i);
               sub(/ +-? +/, "", $NF);
               if (length($i) != 0) printf ("%s - %s\n", $i, $NF)
           } }'
    man - display online manual documentation pages
    apropos - display online manual documentation pages
    whatis - display online manual documentation pages
    • simprude solution

      # remove everything between/include first `(` to last `)`
      $ echo "man(1), apropos(1), whatis(1) - display online manual documentation pages" |
        sed -r 's/(\(.+\))//g'
      man - display online manual documentation pages
  • -F'..'

    $ echo '-foo { {0.000 0.000} {648.0 0.000} {648.0 1980.0} {0.000 1980.0} {0.000 0.000} }' |
      awk -F'}+|{+| ' '{for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) if ($i ~ "[0-9]") print $i}'
    0.000
    0.000
    648.0
    0.000
    648.0
    1980.0
    0.000
    1980.0
    0.000
    0.000
  • BEGIN{ FS=".." }

    $ echo '-foo { {0.000 0.000} {648.0 0.000} {648.0 1980.0} {0.000 1980.0} {0.000 0.000} }' |
      awk 'BEGIN{FS="}+|{+| "} {for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) if($i ~ "[0-9]")print $i}'

field separator variable

  • multiple separators

    [!NOTE|label:multiple separators]

    # orignal contents
    > git config --list --show-origin --name-only | head -3
    file:C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig   diff.astextplain.textconv
    file:C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig   filter.lfs.clean
    file:C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig   filter.lfs.smudge
    #    +......................................................+
    #                             v
    #                       wanted string
    
    # via `-F <regex>`
    > git config --list --show-origin --name-only | head -3 | awk -F"[: ]" '{print $2":"$3}'
    C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig
    C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig
    C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig
    
    # or via `FS=`
    > git config --list --show-origin --name-only | head -3 | awk -v FS='[:[:space:]]+' '{print $2":"$3}'   F
    C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig
    C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig
    C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig
    
    # `[[:blank:]]` or `[[:space:]]`
    > git config --list --show-origin --name-only | head -3 | awk -v FS='[:[:blank:]]+' '{print $2":"$3}'
    C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig
    C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig
    C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig
    
    > git config --list --show-origin --name-only | head -3 | awk 'BEGIN { FS="[:[:blank:]]+" }; { print $2":"$3 }'
    C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig
    C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig
    C:/Users/marslo/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/etc/gitconfig

FS/OFS

$ echo 'foo|dog|cat|mouse|lion|ox|tiger|bar' | awk -v 'FS=|' -v 'OFS=,' '{print $1, $NF}'
foo,bar
# or
$ echo 'foo|dog|cat|mouse|lion|ox|tiger|bar' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"; OFS="\t"} {print $1, $NF}'
foo   bar

# FS same with OFS
$ echo 'foo|dog|cat|mouse|lion|ox|tiger|bar' | awk 'BEGIN {FS = OFS = "|"} {print $1, $NF}'
foo|bar

parser

csv

[!NOTE|label:references:]

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