awk - pattern scanning and processing language
/usr/bin/awk [-f progfile] [-Fc] [' prog '] [parameters] [filename]...
/usr/xpg4/bin/awk [-FcERE] [-v assignment]... 'program' -f progfile... [argument]...
The /usr/xpg4/bin/awk utility is described on the nawk(1) manual page.
The /usr/bin/awk utility scans each input filename for lines that match any of a set of patterns specified in prog. The prog string must be enclosed in single quotes ( a') to protect it from the shell. For each pattern in prog there can be an associated action performed when a line of a filename matches the pattern. The set of pattern-action statements can appear literally as prog or in a file specified with the -f progfile option. Input files are read in order; if there are no files, the standard input is read. The file name '-' means the standard input.
The following options are supported:
-f progfile
-Fc
Each input line is matched against the pattern portion of every pattern-action statement; the associated action is performed for each matched pattern. Any filename of the form var=value is treated as an assignment, not a filename, and is executed at the time it would have been opened if it were a filename. Variables assigned in this manner are not available inside a BEGIN rule, and are assigned after previously specified files have been read.
An input line is normally made up of fields separated by white spaces. (This default can be changed by using the FS built-in variable or the -Fc option.) The default is to ignore leading blanks and to separate fields by blanks and/or tab characters. However, if FS is assigned a value that does not include any of the white spaces, then leading blanks are not ignored. The fields are denoted $1, $2, ...; $0 refers to the entire line.
A pattern-action statement has the form:
pattern { action }
Either pattern or action can be omitted. If there is no action, the matching line is printed. If there is no pattern, the action is performed on every input line. Pattern-action statements are separated by newlines or semicolons.
Patterns are arbitrary Boolean combinations ( !, ||, &&, and parentheses) of relational expressions and regular expressions. A relational expression is one of the following:
expression relop expression expression matchop regular_expression
where a relop is any of the six relational operators in C, and a matchop is either ~ (contains) or !~ (does not contain). An expression is an arithmetic expression, a relational expression, the special expression
var in array
or a Boolean combination of these.
Regular expressions are as in egrep(1). In patterns they must be surrounded by slashes. Isolated regular expressions in a pattern apply to the entire line. Regular expressions can also occur in relational expressions. A pattern can consist of two patterns separated by a comma; in this case, the action is performed for all lines between the occurrence of the first pattern to the occurrence of the second pattern.
The special patterns BEGIN and END can be used to capture control before the first input line has been read and after the last input line has been read respectively. These keywords do not combine with any other patterns.
Built-in variables include:
FILENAME
FS
NF
NR
OFMT
OFS
ORS
RS
An action is a sequence of statements. A statement can be one of the following:
if ( expression ) statement [ else statement ] while ( expression ) statement do statement while ( expression ) for ( expression ; expression ; expression ) statement for ( var in array ) statement break continue { [ statement ] ... } expression # commonly variable = expression print [ expression-list ] [ >expression ] printf format [ ,expression-list ] [ >expression ] next # skip remaining patterns on this input line exit [expr] # skip the rest of the input; exit status is expr
Statements are terminated by semicolons, newlines, or right braces. An empty expression-list stands for the whole input line. Expressions take on string or numeric values as appropriate, and are built using the operators +, -, *, /, %, ^ and concatenation (indicated by a blank). The operators ++, --, +=, -=, *=, /=, %=, ^=, >, >=, <, <=, ==, !=, and ?: are also available in expressions. Variables can be scalars, array elements (denoted x[i]), or fields. Variables are initialized to the null string or zero. Array subscripts can be any string, not necessarily numeric; this allows for a form of associative memory. String constants are quoted (""), with the usual C escapes recognized within.
The print statement prints its arguments on the standard output, or on a file if >expression is present, or on a pipe if '|cmd' is present. The output resulted from the print statement is terminated by the output record separator with each argument separated by the current output field separator. The printf statement formats its expression list according to the format (see printf(3C)).
The arithmetic functions are as follows:
cos(x)
sin(x)
exp(x)
log(x)
sqrt(x)
int(x)
The string functions are as follows:
index(s, t)
int(s)
length(s)
split(s, a, fs)
sprintf(fmt, expr, expr,...)
substr(s, m, n)
The input/output function is as follows:
getline
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of awk when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).
Example 1 Printing Lines Longer Than 72 Characters
The following example is an awk script that can be executed by an awk -f examplescript style command. It prints lines longer than seventy two characters:
length > 72
Example 2 Printing Fields in Opposite Order
The following example is an awk script that can be executed by an awk -f examplescript style command. It prints the first two fields in opposite order:
{ print $2, $1 }
Example 3 Printing Fields in Opposite Order with the Input Fields Separated
The following example is an awk script that can be executed by an awk -f examplescript style command. It prints the first two input fields in opposite order, separated by a comma, blanks or tabs:
BEGIN { FS = ",[ \t]*|[ \t]+" } { print $2, $1 }
Example 4 Adding Up the First Column, Printing the Sum and Average
The following example is an awk script that can be executed by an awk -f examplescript style command. It adds up the first column, and prints the sum and average:
{ s += $1 } END { print "sum is", s, " average is", s/NR }
Example 5 Printing Fields in Reverse Order
The following example is an awk script that can be executed by an awk -f examplescript style command. It prints fields in reverse order:
{ for (i = NF; i > 0; --i) print $i }
Example 6 Printing All lines Between start/stop Pairs
The following example is an awk script that can be executed by an awk -f examplescript style command. It prints all lines between start/stop pairs.
/start/, /stop/
Example 7 Printing All Lines Whose First Field is Different from the Previous One
The following example is an awk script that can be executed by an awk -f examplescript style command. It prints all lines whose first field is different from the previous one.
$1 != prev { print; prev = $1 }
Example 8 Printing a File and Filling in Page numbers
The following example is an awk script that can be executed by an awk -f examplescript style command. It prints a file and fills in page numbers starting at 5:
/Page/ { $2 = n++; } { print }
Example 9 Printing a File and Numbering Its Pages
Assuming this program is in a file named prog, the following example prints the file input numbering its pages starting at 5:
example% awk -f prog n=5 input
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of awk: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, NLSPATH, and PATH.
LC_NUMERIC
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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egrep(1), grep(1), nawk(1), sed(1), printf(3C), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5), standards(5)
Input white space is not preserved on output if fields are involved.
There are no explicit conversions between numbers and strings. To force an expression to be treated as a number, add 0 to it. To force an expression to be treated as a string, concatenate the null string ("") to it.
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