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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to convert a column to last five digits Post 302357761 by grossgermany on Wednesday 30th of September 2009 01:30:14 PM
Old 09-30-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by danmero
Or awk , just shorter Smilie
Code:
awk '{$2=($2~/-/)?substr($2,length($2)-9):substr($2,length($2)-4)}1' file


wow dan, that's amazing, would you mind explain a bit on how this works?
what is the ? symbol do?
what is the ($2~/-/) do?
what is the }1 in the end do?
 

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