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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk - treat multiple delimiters as one Post 27263 by Optimus_P on Thursday 29th of August 2002 09:18:15 AM
Old 08-29-2002
not sure why you would have to specify multiple spaces as a delimiter. awk's default delimiter is a space.

Code:
[hostname]/export/home/optimus$echo 'this   is a test'|awk '{ print $1 $2 $3 }'
thisisa
[hostname]/export/home/optimus$

 

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