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Appending string to awk output

I have a text file with following content

data
void
void
void
1
2
3
end
6
7
8
9
data
void
void
void
4
5
6
end
4
5
8
9

I wanted to extract lines between strings 'data' and 'end' and have achieved it with the following awk one-liner

awk '/data/,/end/{i++} /end/{i=0} i>4' filename

The output is

1
2
3
4
5
6

Now I wanted the number of times the data point appears to be appended before each block. Something like this:

3

1
2
3

3

4
5
6

Is it possible to achieve this by awk?

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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You can do it fairly easily if you just count lines that are comprised of digits between the occurrence of data and end and store the values in an array indexed by the count. Then when end is reached, output the count and then the values stored in the array before resetting the count and the flag that indicates you are between a data and end, e.g.

awk '
  /data/ { between = 1 } 
  between==1 && $1~/^[[:digit:]]+$/ { a[++n] = $1 } 
  /end/ {
    printf "\n%d\n\n", n
    for (i = 1; i <= n; i++)
      print a[i]
    between = n = 0
  }
' file

(note: if you can have two or more data records without an end that follows each data record, you will need to add a test or handle that as needed. That is left to you.)

Example Use/Output

With your input in file, you would get:


3

1
2
3

3

4
5
6

Let me know if you have further questions.

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

0

another

awk '/data/{if(d) print ""; f=1;c=0;d=RS} 
     f && /^[0-9]$/ {d=d RS $0; c++} 
     /end/{f=0; print c d}' file

3

1
2
3

3

4
5
6
over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

0

With your shown samples, please try following awk program.

awk '
/data/,/end/{
  if($0~/^[0-9]/){ count++ }
  if($0~/^end/){
    print (++count1>1? ORS count:count) ORS value
    value=count=""
  }
  value=($0~/^[0-9]/?(value?value ORS:"")$0:ORS)
}
'  Input_file

Explanation: Simply grabbing values between range of data to end as per shown samples. Then whenever line starts from digits increasing value of count variable by 1 and keep adding lines into value variable, whenever line starts from end then printing value of variable value and nullifying value and count to be re-initiated.

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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