06-23-2008
awk alias
Good morning
I would like kindly to ask you to help me with creation of alias with awk command.
alias a="awk {print $1 "| " $2 "| " $3 "| " $4 "| " $5 "| " $6 "| " $7 "| " $8 "| " $13 "| " }"
there is some error but I don't find it please explain me what is error and how can be avoid next time.
Thanks in advance.
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