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Old 12-03-2011
translate sed to awk

hi,

can someone tell me how can I translate the following line from sed to awk?
Code:
`sed 's/^[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*:\([^:]*\):.*/\1/

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Last edited by Franklin52; 12-03-2011 at 11:53 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples, thank you
# 2  
Old 12-03-2011
Code:
awk -F":" '{print $6}' file

# 3  
Old 12-03-2011
one more question

hi bartus

thank you.

now can i translate
Code:
=`sed 's/^[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*:\([^:]*\):.*/\1/' file|awk '{ printf "%-2s", $1 }'`

to
Code:
awk -F":" '{print $6}' file |awk '{ printf "%-2s", $1 }'`

Thanks

Last edited by Scott; 12-03-2011 at 01:44 PM.. Reason: Code tags, please...
# 4  
Old 12-03-2011
Code:
awk -F":" '{ printf "%-2s", $6 }'

HTH
--ahamed
# 5  
Old 12-03-2011
Thanks Ahmed,

what about the file?

Thanks
# 6  
Old 12-04-2011
Code:
awk -F":" '{ printf "%-2s", $6 }' file

--ahamed
# 7  
Old 12-06-2011
AWK Issue

Hello Ahmed and everyone,

Now I have another issue. I have a flat file as example test
inside this file I have information as following :
user:date:numberSmiliehone (all using : as delimiter)

now I am passing $VAR1, $VAR2, $VAR3 and $VAR4

as example if I want to modify date inside flat file I am trying to use something like this
Code:
echo $VAR2| awk -F ":" '{printf %-2s,$2}'test

but I am getting error, do you know how can i resolve this?

Thanks

Last edited by Franklin52; 12-07-2011 at 03:26 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code and data samples, thank you
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