04-06-2008
I wouldnt agree with you more about the format. I hate it when people do that. and yes the filed is always going to be in the same column
which awk
/usr/bin/awk
awk -F '\|~\|' '{ print $20 }' RECORD
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1
/usr/local/bin/awk -F '\|~\|' '{ print $20 }' RECORD
|CARDDESC=A8T1|
/usr/local/bin/awk -F "|~|" '{print $20}' CIRCUITRECORD
|CARDDESC=A8T1|
same result
The output contains a "pipe" symbol which is ok but can that be taken out from the output. I am happy with the results but just wondering.
Thanks ERA in advance for your help
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igawk
IGAWK(1) Utility Commands IGAWK(1)
NAME
igawk - gawk with include files
SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...
DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).
AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like
@include getopt.awk
in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.
OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.
EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk
@include getopt.awk
BEGIN {
while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
...
}
EOF
igawk -f test.awk
SEE ALSO
gawk(1)
Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.
AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+--------------------+-----------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Availability | SUNWgawk |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Interface Stability | Volatile |
+--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES
Source for gawk is available on http://opensolaris.org.
Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)