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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk is changing my FS !! Post 302243209 by Franklin52 on Saturday 4th of October 2008 06:09:18 AM
Old 10-04-2008
You can use printf to print the line with a fixed format, something like:

Code:
VALUE=".........."
awk -v var="$VALUE" 'BEGIN{FS=OFS=" ";fmt="%5s%7s%12s%7s%12s%7s%12s%7s%12s\n"}
NR==FNR{a[$0]=$0; next}
{for(i=4;i<9;i+=2)if($i in a){$(i+1)=var}}
{for(i=4;i<9;i+=2)if($i in a){printf(fmt,$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9);next}}
{print}' ID_to_be_changed my_file

Regards
 

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