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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk ignores fields with only spaces or empty Post 302428343 by anbu23 on Wednesday 9th of June 2010 02:09:17 PM
Old 06-09-2010
Its working for me in AIX v6

Code:
$ echo '"a","b","c","d","","   "' | awk -F, '{ print NF }'
6

Which version are you using?
 

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