why does AWK split my lines into two?
 

Hi,

when I run the following command:

awk -F\, '{print $10 "," $5 "," $1 "," $3 "," $4 "}' myfile > tmpfile

tmpfile displays the lines but they are all cut off and placed on the line below at the same point.

Is there any reason why?

Many Thanks,

Don't know if it was just a typo or not. But if you remove the " (double quote char) just before the closing }, it works as expected on my system.

$cat myfile
l1w1,l1w2,l1w3,l1w4,l1w5,l1w6,l1w7,l1w8,l1w9,l1w10
l2w1,l2w2,l2w3,l2w4,l2w5,l2w6,l2w7,l2w8,l2w9,l2w10

becomes

$cat tmpfile
l1w10,l1w5,l1w1,l1w3,l1w4
l2w10,l2w5,l2w1,l2w3,l2w4