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(g)awk how to preseve white spaces (FS characters) or read a right subpart of $0?
Post 302338434 by shri_nath on Tuesday 28th of July 2009 02:20:18 AM
07-28-2009
I am sorry the line
-rwxrwxrwx 1 sn sn 22395 2007-05-11 08:37 This is a file name with eighteen spaces.jar*
in the original had multiple spaces in the name of the file (on the html posting here on the forum those got collapsed into single spaces
)
It is something like:
ThisXisXXaXXXfileXXXXnameXXXXwithXXXeighteen spaces.jar*
---------- Post updated at 11:20 PM ---------- Previous update was at 10:58 PM ----------
Hi ryandegreat25
Your quick and correct answer is appreciated. Yes I could use "cut", "read" etc., but all of these are shell (external/internal) commands.
But could we solve this inside the gawk script itself (I mean without calling other shell commands/scripts) ? I already have a gawk script in place that does some other things too. If it cannot be done, then I will have to do a "surgery" on the script and split it into possibly many scripts with "read" or "cut" piped in between.
Thanks.
-sn
-rwxrwxrwx 1 sn sn 22395 2007-05-11 08:37 This is a file name with eighteen spaces.jar*
in the original had multiple spaces in the name of the file (on the html posting here on the forum those got collapsed into single spaces
)It is something like:
ThisXisXXaXXXfileXXXXnameXXXXwithXXXeighteen spaces.jar*
---------- Post updated at 11:20 PM ---------- Previous update was at 10:58 PM ----------
Hi ryandegreat25
Your quick and correct answer is appreciated. Yes I could use "cut", "read" etc., but all of these are shell (external/internal) commands.
But could we solve this inside the gawk script itself (I mean without calling other shell commands/scripts) ? I already have a gawk script in place that does some other things too. If it cannot be done, then I will have to do a "surgery" on the script and split it into possibly many scripts with "read" or "cut" piped in between.
Thanks.
-sn
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