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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting can awk print column using a variable ?? Post 302089186 by jambesh on Monday 18th of September 2006 03:49:07 AM
Old 09-18-2006
Dhruv ,
Here is sample out put of each of temjam0 , tempjam1 tempjam2,....
tempjam0 tempjam1 tempjam2 tempjam3 tempjam4 tempjam5
$ cat tempjam0
MANDT SERAIL EQTYP SERSCHA SEREX BSTVP
510 hsgdfs 44 sercha sex1 bst233
510 bg 89 fg 23 98
510 gh 89 we sew mn

$ cat tempjam1
MANDT SERAIL EQTYP SERSCHA SEREX BSTVP
510 hsgdfs 44 sercha sex1 bst233
510 bg 89 fg 23 98
510 gh 89 we sew mn

$ cat tempjam2
MANDT SERAIL EQTYP SERSCHA SEREX BSTVP
510 hsgdfs 44 sercha sex1 bst233
510 bg 89 fg 23 98
510 gh 89 we sew mn

$ cat tempjam3
MANDT SERAIL EQTYP SERSCHA SEREX BSTVP
510 hsgdfs 44 sercha sex1 bst233
510 bg 89 fg 23 98
510 gh 89 we sew mn

$ cat tempjam4
MANDT SERAIL EQTYP SERSCHA SEREX BSTVP
510 hsgdfs 44 sercha sex1 bst233
510 bg 89 fg 23 98
510 gh 89 we sew mn

$ cat tempjam5
MANDT SERAIL EQTYP SERSCHA SEREX BSTVP
510 hsgdfs 44 sercha sex1 bst233
510 bg 89 fg 23 98
510 gh 89 we sew mn
sequence is not changing in any of the file ...what is wrong ?
i guess each of the file should produce only one column ..right ?? but it is containing the whole file again surprise !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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