> My problem is that the timestamp, which is just that--no date, is only on
the
> first record of each sample rather than every record and I don't want the
blank
> lines in between the samples. Perhaps this is a simple awk routine but
> I don't know awk well enough to do this.
awk '{ if (NF>7) {time=$1;print $0} else print time,$0}'
This is off the top of my head. I'm sure there is a more elegant method.
This will add the time field to each record. I didn't take it any further.
The next problem is quoting the correct fields. (You can hard code it) I
just didn't feel like it. 8) (I would've used perl/DBD w/ bind variables.)
HTH
Shawn M Ferris
Oracle DBA - Time Warner Telecom
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