Answer by cas for Parse file with Awk only when first row matches pattern
awk 'FNR==1 && ! /whatever/ { nextfile } ; ...remainder of awk script here...' list_of_files_to_processThis should skip to the next file to be processed unless "whatever" is on line 1.I can't...
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Assuming a simple, comma-delimited file where every comma is a delimiter (some csv files may have quoted commas that ought not to be treated as field seperators), the following prints every line except...
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to list files:tryawk 'FNR == 1 && $4 == "whatever" { print FILENAME ;}' file1 ... filen |which will select all file having whatever in fouth colum.If you have funny name, just add quotes.awk...
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I need to interrogate the header of a CSV file, and if a column exists proceed with the data rows. Context is when the data contains columns depending on when and what emitted it.Hoping for a "pure"...
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