Linux-AWK/C2/Conditional-statements-in-awk/English

Title of script: Conditional statements in Awk

Author: Antara Roy Choudhury

Keywords: if, else, else if

Visual Cue	Narration
Slide 1: Introduction	Welcome to this spoken tutorial on conditional statements in awk.
Slide 2: Learning Objective	In this tutorial we will learn about- if else else if in awk We will do this through some examples.
Slide 3: System requirement	To record this tutorial, I am using Ubuntu Linux 16.04 OS and gedit text editor 3.20.1 You can use any text editor of your choice.
Slide 4: Pre-requisite	* To practice this tutorial, you should have gone through the previous awk tutorials on our website. You should have familiarity with any programming language like C or C++ If not, then please go through the corresponding tutorials on our website.
Slide 5: Code Files	The files used in this tutorial are available in the Code Files link on this tutorial page. Please download and extract them.
Slide 6: Conditional Statement	A conditional statement allows us to check a specified condition before performing an action. Let’s learn how conditional statements like if, else, else-if work in awk.
Slide 7: if-else Statement	Like any programming language, the syntax of if -else statement is: if conditional-expression1 is true then perform action1. else if conditional-expression2 is true then perform action 2. A number of else if statements may follow after this. At the end, if none of the specified conditional expressions are true, then perform action n. The else and else-if portions are optional. Let us go through an example.
Show awkdemo.txt file in gedit	We will use the same awkdemo.txt file, that we have used earlier.
Slide 8: Example 1	Say, we need to give 50% increment in stipend to the students getting more than 8000 rupees. Let us create an awk file for this condition.
Type: BEGIN{OFS=":"; print "Name:Old stipend:New Stipend"} {if($6>8000) print $2, $6,$6*1.5}	Type the following code as shown in a text editor and save it as cond dot awk file. I have already done this. The same file is also available in the Code Files link.
Highlight OFS=":"	In this code, we have set the Output Field Separator as colon.
Highlight 1st print statement	The first print statement prints the field headings.
Highlight if statement	Next, the if statement will check whether the value of the 6th field is greater than 8000.
Highlight 2nd print statement	If yes, the second print statement will get executed.
Highlight $6*1.5	$6*1.5 inside this print statement will multiply the 6th field value by 1.5%
	Let’s execute this code now.
Open the terminal	Open the terminal by pressing CTRL, ALT and T keys.
cd /<saved folder>	Go to the folder in which you downloaded and extracted the Code Files using cd command
In Terminal awk -F"|" -f cond.awk awkdemo.txt [Enter]	Now type: awk space hyphen capital F pipe symbol within double quotes space hyphen small f space cond.awk space awkdemo.txt Press Enter.
Show the output	The output shows only one student’s record with the incremented stipend who fulfilled the condition.
Slide 9: Example 2	Now, suppose the rule changes: 50% increment in stipend for students who get more than 8000 rupees, otherwise give 30% increment. How can we do that? We need to add an else block.
show cond.awk	Switch to the cond.awk file once again.
Type: [Enter]	Let us add the following line of code. Before the last closing curly brace press Enter.
else print $2,$6,$6*1.3	else press Enter. print dollar 2 comma dollar 6 comma dollar 6 astrix 1.3
Press Ctrl+S	Save the file and switch to the terminal.
In terminal Press up key [Enter]	Press up key to get the previously executed command and press Enter.
Show the output Highlight Yojna chaudhury:1000:1300	Observe the output now. Yojna Chaudhury was previously getting 1000. Now she is getting 1300.
Slide 10: Example 3	Now let’s change the rules again. 50% increment for student getting more than 8000 rupees, 40% increment for student getting more than 4000 rupees, Otherwise give 30% increment
In cond.awk Type the highlighted portion BEGIN{OFS=":";print "Name:Old stipend:New Stipend"} {if($6>8000) print $2, $6,$6*1.5 [Enter] else if($6>4000) print $2,$6,$6*1.4 else print $2,$6,$6*1.3}	Switch to the code. Update the code as shown.
Press Ctrl+S	Save the file and switch to the terminal.
	Let me clear the terminal.
In terminal Press up key [Enter]	Press up key to get the previously executed command and press Enter.
Show the output and highlight appropriately	This time, notice that the student Mira Nair has got 40% increment.
Slide 11: Summary	This brings us to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarize. In this tutorial we learnt about Conditional statements like: if else else if in awk
Slide 12: Assignment	As an assignment give grades according to the rules: If mark is greater than equal to 90, grade will be A. If mark is greater than equal to 80 but less than 90, grade will be B. If mark is greater than equal to 70 but less than 80, grade will be C. If mark is greater than equal to 60 but less than 70, grade will be D. Otherwise grade will be F.
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Slide 17: Thanks	The script has been contributed by Antara. And this is Praveen from IIT Bombay signing off. Thanks for joining.

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