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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting AWK CSV to TXT format, TXT file not in a correct column format Post 302224594 by mdap on Wednesday 13th of August 2008 01:30:00 PM
Old 08-13-2008
Question AWK CSV to TXT format, TXT file not in a correct column format
HI guys,

I have created a script to read 1 column in a csv file and then place it in text file.

However, when i checked out the text file, it is not in a column format...

Example:
CSV file contains
name,age
aa,11
bb,22
cc,33

After using awk to get first column
TXT file contains
name[]aa[]bb[]cc

the [] are box characters.

the command used is:

cat file1.csv | awk -F "," '{print $1}' > file2.txt

do you have any idea why this is happening?

Could this be resolved?

Thanks,
Martin
 

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