08-21-2008
Using awk to search variable length records
New to awk and need some help. I have a script that I would like to make more compact. I want to read a file and grab every field, from every record, except the last field. The records are variable length and have varying number of fields. A record will have at least two fields, but can have many more. Here is what I am currently using. Can someone provide a compact solution? Thanks.
awk '{ print $1 }' sftplist.txt >> users.txt
awk '{ print $2 }' sftplist.txt >> users.txt
awk '{ print $3 }' sftplist.txt >> users.txt
awk '{ print $4 }' sftplist.txt >> users.txt
awk '{ print $5 }' sftplist.txt >> users.txt
awk '{ print $6 }' sftplist.txt >> users.txt
awk '{ print $7 }' sftplist.txt >> users.txt
awk '{ print $8 }' sftplist.txt >> users.txt
awk '{ print $9 }' sftplist.txt >> users.txt
awk '{ print $10 }' sftplist.txt >> users.txt
This gives me what I want, but then I have a lot of cleanup after it, like removing blank lines and lines that contained the last field when I didn't want the last field.
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NAME
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SYNOPSIS
grcompiler [-d] [-D] [-g] [-n number] [-v number] [-w number] [-wall] [-q] gdl-file font-file [output-file] [output-fontname]
Description
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Environment
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Files
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dbg_classes.txt
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dbg_cmap.txt
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