I have the following line

2010-10-10 14:39:11,634 0000, 1AB :123ABC42-E4CF-1A99-567F-1234567890AB SOMEINFORMATIONHERE [Some Information here]

and would need it in this format

2012-10-22,14:39:11,634,0000,1AB,:760ED8C2-E4CF-1A99-567F-FBC8606973DA,SOMEINFORMATIONHERE,Some Information here

I have tried the following:

awk '{ print $1 "," $2 "," $3 "," $4 "," $5 "," $6 "," $7 "," }'

but i'm hung up with the last field .
As you can see above, I'm using the default Field Separator, which works up until the last field. Any help is appreciated

doh!....
my bad...

Hi, does this do what you want?

Please use ***[code][/code]*** tags around your code and data, to preserve the original formatting and to improve readability. Do not use quote tags, bolding, colors, "start/end" lines, or other creative techniques.


Here's a sed solution that appears to work, at least on the above example.

Note how you can add a number at the end of the s option to specify which specific instance of the pattern in the line to operate on. Adding a g then makes it mean from that position onwards. (There is no a simple way to go from the start of the line to a specific position, however.)

Here's the output I get:

Is it just me or did no one notice that the lines of data are not the same and I don't mean replacing spaces with commas.
Specifically:
No code supplied has allowed for this, not even the OP's original example.

thanks this.. helped ..

Yes I noticed that. I assumed the the two lines are only presented as an example of input and output format, the second line being a result of processing a different input than the first line, since that was the only possibility to allow a sensible solution based on the information provided. Also, the attempted original poster's solution seems to suggest that the desired result is to only change the format. But I may of course be wrong...

I assumed the same as millgates. Although it would've been clearer if the OP had used the same data for both input and output, the desire was clear.


@tekvaio: I'm glad we could help you out, but what we'd really like to hear is what exactly in our posts helped you. It would be polite to give us a bit of detail on what you ended up using and why, and it may also help others who come across the thread later.

yes.. thats correct.. sorry about that, i wrote this post in hurry and wasn't completely accurate at the time.

gave me the desired output . lesson learned..

Thank you for the detailed reply. I'm happy I could help.
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