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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting using awk for volatile column list Post 302132611 by yorker on Friday 17th of August 2007 11:46:19 PM
Old 08-18-2007
The 5th column value "5-12:13:14" should be converted into "5 days 12 hrs 13 minutes and 14 seconds" and stored into table in the database.. This value will be like 13:14 meaning that 13 hours and 14 seconds, read from right to left, I think you can follow this now..pls let me know if you still want more accurate. But this column
 

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shtool-table

SHTOOL-TABLE.TMP(1)					      GNU Portable Shell Tool					       SHTOOL-TABLE.TMP(1)

NAME

       shtool-table - GNU shtool pretty-print a field-separated list

SYNOPSIS

       shtool table [-F|--field-sep sep] [-w|--width width] [-c|--columns cols] [-s|--strip strip] strsepstr...

DESCRIPTION

       This pretty-prints a list of strings as a table.

OPTIONS

       The following command line options are available.

       -F, --field-sep sep
	   Separate columns using sep. Default is ":".

       -w, --width width
	   Width of each column. Default is 15 characters.

       -c, --columns cols
	   Number of columns. Default is 3.

       -s, --strip strip
	   Strip off any characters past strip. Default is 79.

EXAMPLE

	#   shell script
	shtool table -F , -w 5 -c 4 "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12"

HISTORY

       The GNU shtool table command was originally written by Ralf S.  Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1999 for GNU shtool.

SEE ALSO

       shtool(1), tr(1), fmt(1), sh(1), awk(1), sed(1).

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