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Re: awk question


  • Subject: Re: awk question
  • From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:59:19 +0000

On 15 Dec 2006, at 01:19, email@hidden wrote:

No, because then that whole line is only 3 fields.  The goal is to
separate fields by whitespace generally, but allow quoted strings,
which may contain spaces.

Oh, I thought John had already handled the easier awk stuff and it was the field separators that were problematic?



awk 'BEGIN { OFS="\n" } { print $1, $NF-2, $NF-1, $NF }'

-->
17
2003
2004
2005-10-7,13:45:34.0


-- Martin Orpen Idea Digital Imaging Ltd


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