Assignment-8

Awk Programming
1. lets first start with one line programs.

Consider the following data:

The above data is stored in marks.txt

1.1. Display just the names, genders and endsem marks of:
(a) all students (b) the first 3 students only (c) the last student
1.2 Store the male students in males.txt and the females in females.txt.
1.3. Compute the total mark for each student and display it along with their names.
1.4. Who is the topper? Which students scored above the class average?

2. Little XYZ has joined our MNNIT and he is very new to the grading system present here. He has
finished his first semester and has got some grades. But he doesn’t know how to compute the
GPA. Below is a list of subjects which he has taken, grade he obtained and the subject credits.
Can you help him to compute his GPA using awk script?

(Hint : calculate the GPA based off of the equation sum of grade * credit hours / sum of credit hours)
3. Given the following shell function
lspids()
{
/bin/ps -ef | grep “$1”| grep -v grep ;
}
OR
lspids()
{
/bin/ps -auwx 2> /dev/null | grep “$1”| grep –v
grep ;
}
make the necessary changes so that when the function is executed as follows

$ lspid -h ssh
 the output looks like this:

UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME COMMAND

Root 2121 1 0 Nov 16 ? 0:14 /opt/bin/sshd

Also, when the function executes as

$ lspid ssh

the output looks like this:

root 2121 1 0 Nov 16 ? 0:14 /opt/bin/sshd

Here you are using ssh as the word specified to grep, but your function should be able to use any
word as an argument. You have to use awk to print PID and location of process.

4. Consider the price list for a small fruit market. The list is stored in the file

fruit_prices.txt:

Fruit Price/lbs Quantity

Banana 0.89 100

Paech 0.79 312

Kiwi 1.50 400

Pineapple 1.29 84

Apple 0.99 21

Mango 2.20 52

a) Write an awk script that prints each of the fields in a record in reverse order. The output for the
file fruit_prices.txt should look like the following:

Quantity Price/lbs Fruit

100 $0.89 Banana

65 $0.79 Peach

22 $1.50 Kiwi

35 $1.29 Pineapple

78 $0.99 Apple

b) Write a shell script which prints the total quantity and sum of purchase.

5. Write an awk script that checking balance account. Your program needs to print the balance
in the account every time the user makes a transaction. The transactions are stored in a file.
Each line or record in the file has the following format:

command:date:comment:amount

Here date is the date on which the transaction was made, comment is a string (including
embedded spaces) describing the transaction, and amount is the amount of the transaction.
 The command determines what should be done to the balance with amount. The valid
commands are:

 B, indicates balance. When this command is encountered, the balance in the account should be
set to the transaction amount.
 D, indicates a deposit. When this command is encountered, the transaction amount should be
added to the balance.
 C, indicates a check. When this command is encountered, the transaction amount should be
subtracted from the balance.
 W, indicates a withdrawal. When this command is encountered, the transaction amount should
be subtracted from the balance.

The main difference between the C (check) and the W (withdrawal) commands is that the
C (check) command adds an extra field to its records:

command:date:comment:check number:amount

In addition, the B (balance) command uses only two fields:

B:amount (Here amount is the balance amount in the account.)

For the purposes of this problem, you need to be concerned with the first field, which contains
the command; the second field, which contains the transaction date; and the last field, which
contains the transaction amount.
The sample input file looks like the following:

$ cat account.txt

account.txt

B:0

D:10/24/97:inital deposit:1000
C:10/25/97:credit card:101:100

W:10/30/97:gas:21.43

W:10/30/97:lunch:11.34

C:11/02/97:toner:41.45

C:11/04/97:car payment:347.23

D:11/06/97:dividend:687.34
W:11/10/97:emergency cash:200

Your output should look like the following:

10/24/97 1000.00

10/25/97 900.00

10/30/97 878.57

10/30/97 867.23

11/02/97 825.78
 11/04/97 478.55

11/06/97 1165.89

11/10/97 965.89

6. Modify the program you wrote for question5 to print the ending (total) balance after all input
records have been considered. Your output should now look like the following:

10/24/97 1000.00

10/25/97 900.00

10/30/97 878.57
10/30/97 867.23

11/02/97 825.78

11/04/97 478.55

11/06/97 1165.89

11/10/97 965.89

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Total 965.89