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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users GAWK removes FS | on output Post 302360290 by paulr211 on Thursday 8th of October 2009 02:23:55 PM
Old 10-08-2009
GAWK removes FS | on output

I have the simple gawk script below. When the script runs in the output of all the ITM lines the FS is replaced with a space, the Non ITM lines retain the | field separator.

The ITM lines have many fields and I can't insert "|" between each field because some of the fields are blank.

Is there a simple way of keeping the FS?

Thanks,

Paul

# parse.awk -- script to substitute a field
BEGIN { FS="|";rs=nl;
}
{


if ($1=="ITM" && $5=="DIM" )
{
$5 = $25

}

print

}
END {
}

---------- Post updated at 01:23 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:48 PM ----------

I needed to specify OFS="|"

Last edited by paulr211; 10-08-2009 at 03:16 PM..
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uniq(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   uniq(1)

Name
       uniq - report repeated lines in a file

Syntax
       uniq [-udc[+n][-n]] [input[output]]

Description
       The  command  reads  the  input	file comparing adjacent lines.	In the normal case, the second and succeeding copies of repeated lines are
       removed; the remainder is written on the output file.  Note that repeated lines must be adjacent in order to be found.  For further  infor-
       mation, see

Options
       The n arguments specify skipping an initial portion of each line in the comparison:

       -n Skips specified number of fields.  A field is defined as a string of non-space, non-tab characters separated by tabs and spaces from its
	  neighbors.

       +n Skips specified number of characters in addition to fields.  Fields are skipped before characters.

       -c Displays number of repetitions, if any, for each line.

       -d Displays only lines that were repeated.

       -u Displays only unique (nonrepeated) lines.

       If the -u flag is used, just the lines that are not repeated in the original file are output.  The -d option specifies  that  one  copy	of
       just the repeated lines is to be written.  The normal mode output is the union of the -u and -d mode outputs.

       The  -c option supersedes -u and -d and generates an output report in default style but with each line preceded by a count of the number of
       times it occurred.

See Also
       comm(1), sort(1)

																	   uniq(1)
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