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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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colrm

COLRM(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  COLRM(1)

NAME

     colrm -- remove columns from a file

SYNOPSIS

     colrm [start [stop]]

DESCRIPTION

     The colrm utility removes selected columns from the lines of a file.  A column is defined as a single character in a line.  Input is read
     from the standard input.  Output is written to the standard output.

     If only the start column is specified, columns numbered less than the start column will be written.  If both start and stop columns are spec-
     ified, columns numbered less than the start column or greater than the stop column will be written.  Column numbering starts with one, not
     zero.

     Tab characters increment the column count to the next multiple of eight.  Backspace characters decrement the column count by one.

ENVIRONMENT

     The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of colrm as described in environ(7).

EXIT STATUS

     The colrm utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

     awk(1), column(1), cut(1), paste(1)

HISTORY

     The colrm command appeared in 3.0BSD.

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