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Old 08-05-2010, 10:43 AM   #1
keenboy
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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,
 
Old 08-05-2010, 11:34 AM   #2
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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
 
  


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