[CentOS] [OT] Bash help
Mark Haney
mark.haney at neonova.net
Wed Oct 25 17:48:07 UTC 2017
On 10/25/2017 01:24 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>
>> This screams out for associative arrays. (Also called hashes,
>> dictionaries, maps, etc.)
>>
>> That does limit you to CentOS 7+, or maybe 6+, as I recall. CentOS 5 is
>> definitely out, as that ships Bash 3, which lacks this feature.
> <snip>
> Associative arrays?
>
> Awk! Awk! (No, I am not a seagull...)
>
> sort file | awk '{ array[$1] += $2;} END { for (i in array) { print i "\t"
> array[i];}'
>
> mark "associative arrays, how do I love thee? Let me tot the arrays..."
>
Okay, I'm impressed with this one. I use awk for simple stuff when sed
starts getting weird, but this is absolutely elegant. No offense to the
other examples, they are all awesome, but I had no idea awk could do
this with such little effort. Well, I know what I'm studying up on this
weekend.
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Mark Haney
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