I have already post on Linux/UNIX seq command, using which we can generate sequence of numbers. Seq is very useful to generate loop arguments in UNIX bash scripting.
One of very useful seq command line option is -f
-f, --format=FORMAT
use printf style floating-point FORMAT
Lets see some simple examples on the same.
$ seq -f "%04g" 3
Output:
0001
0002
0003
$ seq -f "logfile%02g.txt" 10
Output:
logfile01.txt
logfile02.txt
logfile03.txt
logfile04.txt
logfile05.txt
logfile06.txt
logfile07.txt
logfile08.txt
logfile09.txt
logfile10.txt
Now, to create 10 files with names logfile01.txt, logfile02.txt ,....., logfile10.txt
$ touch $(seq -f "logfile%02g.txt" 10)
$ ls -1
logfile01.txt
logfile02.txt
logfile03.txt
logfile04.txt
logfile05.txt
logfile06.txt
logfile07.txt
logfile08.txt
logfile09.txt
logfile10.txt
FIRST INCREMENT LAST
Sequence numbers between 1.0003 and 1.0012 with an increment of .00002
$ seq -f "1.%04g" 3 2 12
1.0003
1.0005
1.0007
1.0009
1.0011
-s is to specify separator between sequence numbers.
$ seq -s "+" -f "1.%04g" 3 2 12
1.0003+1.0005+1.0007+1.0009+1.0011
$ seq -s "+" -f "1.%04g" 3 2 12 | bc
5.0035
Another good command for printing sequential and random data is jot, read here
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3 comments:
Hi Jadu, Love to bother you again in the sed article.
I have to work with alarm log as sample:
description of alarm occurrence at some place.
module category time suggestion
201 midium 21:53 check hardware
312 critical 16:51 link fail
561 normal 06:03 temperature exceed medium range
description of alarm recover at some place.
module catergory time remark
561 normal 07:02 temperature recovered
402 critical 21:13 link up
from alarm log above, I want to use sed to remove every description and just maintain the tabular information. Or just maintain the alarm, not the recover ...
Please demonstrate the way by using sed.
Many thanks
Sincerely your
@awkseeker : Hi, thanks for the question and sorry for a delayed answer. Could you please put the expected output for the above input, that will help. Thanks again.
I learned something today by reading this. Your explanation of containers was also very helpful.
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