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Old 06-04-2013
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Hello,
I am using awk command to print some output, but there are some characters that I would like to remove from the output
awk '{print $5$6}'
the output I get is

column5/:column6
I am looking forward to remove the : and to get the output
column5/column6
Sorry if this question is very basic, I tried reading a little about gsub but I ended up with syntax errors...
Appreciated
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Old 06-04-2013
Code:
awk '{gsub(/:/,""); print $5$6}'

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Old 06-04-2013
Yep, that's what I am looking for Smilie Thank you!
# 4  
Old 06-04-2013
Error404,
check this out:

Code:
$ awk '{six=$6;gsub(/:/,"",six);$6=six;print $5$6}' file
column5/column6

# 5  
Old 06-04-2013
Ah, but how do you know it's in column 6, not column 5?

Also, why bother assigning a variable? You can do it all in one statement with gsub(/:/,"",$6)
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