Reformat data using awk - linux

Question

I have a dataset that contains rows of UUIDs followed by locations and transaction IDs. The UUIDs are separated by a semi-colon (';') and the transactions are separated by tabs, like the following:
01234;LOC_1=ABC LOC_1=BCD LOC_2=CDE
56789;LOC_2=DEF LOC_3=EFG
I know all of the location codes in advance. What I want to do is transform this data into a format I can load into SQL/Postgres for analysis, like this:
01234;LOC_1=ABC
01234;LOC_1=BCD
01234;LOC_2=CDE
56789;LOC_2=DEF
56789;LOC_3=EFG
I'm pretty sure I can do this easily using awk (or similar) by looking up location IDs from a file (ex. LOC_1) and matching any instance of the location ID and printing that out next to the UUID. I haven't been able to get it right yet, and any help is much appreciated!
My locations file is named location and my dataset is data. Note that I can edit the original file or write the results to a new file, either is fine.

Answer 1

awk without using split: use semicolon or tab as the field separator
awk -F'[;\t]' -v OFS=';' '{for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) print $1,$i}' file

Answer 2

I don't think you need to match against a known list of locations; you should be able to just print each line as you go:
$ awk '{print $1; split($1,a,";"); for (i=2; i<=NF; ++i) print a[1] ";" $i}' file
01234;LOC_1=ABC
01234;LOC_1=BCD
01234;LOC_2=CDE
56789;LOC_2=DEF
56789;LOC_3=EFG

Answer 3

You comment on knowing the locations and the mapping file makes me suspicious what your example seems to have done isn't exactly what is being asked - but it seems like you're wanting to reformat each set of tab delimited LOC= values into a row with their UUID in front.
If so, this will do the trick:
awk ' BEGIN {OFS=FS=";"} {split($2,locs,"\t"); for (n in locs) { print $1,locs[n]}}'
Given:
$ cat -A data.txt
01234;LOC_1=ABC^ILOC_1=BCD^ILOC_2=CDE$
56789;LOC_2=DEF^ILOC_3=EFG$
Then:
$ awk ' BEGIN {OFS=FS=";"} {split($2,locs,"\t"); for (n in locs) { print $1,locs[n]}}' data.txt
01234;LOC_1=ABC
01234;LOC_1=BCD
01234;LOC_2=CDE
56789;LOC_2=DEF
56789;LOC_3=EFG
The BEGIN {OFS=FS=";"} block sets the input and output delimiter to ;.
For each row, we then split the second field into an array named locs, splitting on tab, via - split($2,locs,"\t")
And then loop through locs printing the UUID and each loc value - for (n in locs) { print $1,locs[n]}

Answer 4

How about without loop or without split one as follows.(considering that Input_file is same as shown samples only)
awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS=";"}{gsub(/[[:space:]]+/,"\n"$1 OFS)} 1' Input_file

Answer 5

This might work for you (GNU sed):
sed -r 's/((.*;)\S+)\s+(\S+)/\1\n\2\3/;P;D' file
Repeatedly replace the white space between locations with a newline, followed by the UUID and a ;, printing/deleting each line as it appears.