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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Awk multiple lines with 4th column on to a single line Post 302560734 by Vasan on Friday 30th of September 2011 05:39:21 PM
Old 09-30-2011
Thanks.

But I am not getting the right output..

Here is what I got
Code:
$ cat FILENAME|awk -F"|" '{print $1,$2,$4}' |tr " " "\|"
XXXXXXXXXX1|07/24/2007|aaaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbccccccccccccc
XXXXXXXXXX1|07/24/2007|sometxt
XXXXXXXXXX1|07/30/2007|some_random_text
XXXXXXXXXX1|07/30/2007|new_random.
XXXXXXXXXX1|09/27/2007|some_nre_random_test
XXXXXXXXXX1|09/27/2007|blabla
XXXXXXXXXX1|09/27/2007|fixed_text_random
XXXXXXXXXX1|11/14/2007|blabla
XXXXXXXXXX1|11/28/2007|junk_text
XXXXXXXXXX2|12/21/2007|Notes


Am I missing something..

Thanks
Last edited by Franklin52; 10-01-2011 at 05:56 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples, thank you
 

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gnustep-config(1)					       GNUstep System Manual						 gnustep-config(1)

NAME

       gnustep-config - prints information about the current gnustep installation.

SYNOPSIS

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BUGS

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SEE ALSO

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