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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers formatting a file headache Post 302107452 by ynneycat on Friday 16th of February 2007 08:31:52 PM
Old 02-16-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by reborg
Yes, it was as I said untested, and there was an obvious pair of typos in the for loop, still untested but should be ( I think ) correct now.

Code:
awk -F '[,:]' '{ for ( i=7; i <= NF; i++) { printf "%s,%s,%s\n", $1, $2, $i } }


Nearly!
It was having problems with the six trailing ,,,,,, so I have stripped these out with sed first.

But it is still is skipping the first subject. I think this is because of the delimiter.
jsmi3279,xxxxxx,123456789,John,Smith,XMLT1005:MATH2987:PHYS4597:FRNC3578:ITLN590:LATN3490,,,,,,

The output has only 5 lines for this user not six. It doesn't contain a line with the first subject XMLT1005

Thanks for your assistance!
-J
 

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lpinfo(8)							    Apple Inc.								 lpinfo(8)

NAME
lpinfo - show available devices or drivers SYNOPSIS
lpinfo [ -E ] [ -U username ] [ -h server[:port] ] [ -l ] [ --device-id device-id-string ] [ --exclude-schemes scheme-list ] [ --include- schemes scheme-list ] [ --language locale ] [ --make-and-model name ] [ --product name ] -m lpinfo [ -E ] [ -U username ] [ -h server[:port] ] [ -l ] [ --exclude-schemes scheme-list ] [ --include-schemes scheme-list ] [ --timeout seconds ] -v DESCRIPTION
lpinfo lists the available devices or drivers known to the CUPS server. The first form (-m) lists the available drivers, while the second form (-v) lists the available devices. OPTIONS
lpinfo accepts the following options: -E Forces encryption when connecting to the server. -U username Sets the username to use when connecting to the server. -h server[:port] Selects an alternate server. -l Shows a "long" listing of devices or drivers. --device-id device-id-string Specifies the IEEE-1284 device ID to match when listing drivers with the -m option. --exclude-schemes scheme-list Specifies a comma-separated list of device or PPD schemes that should be excluded from the results. Static PPD files use the "file" scheme. --include-schemes scheme-list Specifies a comma-separated list of device or PPD schemes that should be included in the results. Static PPD files use the "file" scheme. --language locale Specifies the language to match when listing drivers with the -m option. --make-and-model name Specifies the make and model to match when listing drivers with the -m option. --product name Specifies the product to match when listing drivers with the -m option. --timeout seconds Specifies the timeout when listing devices with the -v option. COMPATIBILITY
The lpinfo command is unique to CUPS. SEE ALSO
lpadmin(8), http://localhost:631/help COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2007-2011 by Apple Inc. 5 December 2008 CUPS lpinfo(8)
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