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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Awk Multiple Field Separators Post 49659 by Tonka52 on Wednesday 7th of April 2004 07:12:07 AM
Old 04-07-2004
Google,

I can't rely on fixed width fields, as the length changes. I was hoping for a command something like :
Code:
awk ' {FS = "[:, -]+" } { print $1 $2 $3 $4 $5}'

Of course, this syntax is wrong...but you know what I'm getting at yeah?

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