Shell Programming and Scripting

Thanks, but I'm not sure what that printf is doing.

I was able to sort of get it to working by changing my code to :

Code:

nawk 'BEGIN { FIELDWIDTHS = "15 10" } ; { arr[$1] += $2 } END {for (i in arr) {print i arr[i] } }' count_sort.txt > count_sum.txt

It looks like it is summing like I want, but it is removing the leading spaces for the last field. Any way to keep it from doing that?

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Update -

I tried your printf suggestion. I think I got it to work using this:

Code:

nawk 'BEGIN { FIELDWIDTHS = "15 10" } ; { arr[$1] += $2 } END {for (i in arr) {printf "%15s%10s\n", substr(i, 1, 15), arr[i] } }' count_sort.txt > count_sum.txt

I had to remove the first %s from your example. Otherwise it was giving me a not enough arguments for printf error. What was the %s doing in your example?

The %s is a little confusing to me.

Thanks again.