On Monday 5 May 2008 09:31, Nezhate wrote:
> Hi there
> I'm using awk to search the character equal "=" and replace it with
> space character " " in file1. The result is redirected to another
> file2.
>
> ----------------file1-------------------
> field1="data1"after there is some data...
> field2="data2"after there is some data...
> field3="data3"after there is some data...
> field4="data4"after there is some data...
> -----------------end_file1---------------------
>
> I used this
> awk 's/=/ ' file1 >> file2
>
> but I get this error
>
> awk: s/=/TEST
> awk: ^ unterminated regexp
>
>
> I want to have the next file
> ----------------file2-------------------
> field1 "data1"after there is some data...
> field2 "data2"after there is some data...
> field3 "data3"after there is some data...
> field4 "data4"after there is some data...
> -----------------end_file2---------------------
>
> how to indicate that I'm searching for character and not for an
> unterminated regular expression?
> Thanks for your help.
I think you are a bit confused here. You are using what looks like sed
syntax (although incorrect) as a command to awk. So, either do
sed 's/=/ /' file1
(this replaces only the first = in each line; if you want to replace all
=,
then use
sed 's/=/ /g' file1)
or, if you want to use awk, then do
awk 'sub(/=/," ")+1' file1
(again, this replaces only the first = in each line; if you want to
replace
all =, then do
awk 'gsub(/=/," ")+1' file1)
--
All the commands are tested with bash and GNU tools, so they may use
nonstandard features. I try to mention when something is nonstandard (if
I'm aware of that), but I may miss something. Corrections are welcome.
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