awk in loop How to
 

hi memeber
how can i use awk in a loop to get the columns of a table.such as


for count in ` cat file | awk '{ print $1 }' `

but i want to get another column
ın each loop

ıs it possible to do something like this

col=1

for count in ` cat file | awk '{ print $col }' `
do
--
-
--
let col=`expr col + 1 #get next column number
done

Do I understand correctly that you want the xth column for the xth line? E.g. 1st column on the 1st line, 2nd column on the 2nd line, etc?

awk column
 

to get xth column the xth has already been taken care of

Perhaps try explaining what you are attempting to do? If you want every column from every row, you could use two for loops...
...but I'm assuming you're doing something with the items? Otherwise why not just dump the original output?