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Old 11-02-2007
Converting field into fixed width csv

Hi

I have a file having record as -
1,aaa,a123,a

I need this converted to as 2nd col to 5 chars wide & 3rd col to 6chars wide such as -
1,aaa ,a123 ,a

How we could achieve this? Thx in advance.
# 2  
Old 11-02-2007
Got solution -

awk -F"," '{printf("%-1s,%-5s,%-6s\n", $1,$2,$3)}' fname
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