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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Long lines in test.awk Post 302463308 by kristinu on Saturday 16th of October 2010 10:45:24 PM
Old 10-16-2010
Long lines in test.awk
I have a awk script called test.awk which I run using

Code:
awk -f test.awk file1.txt > file2.txt

I am doing a long print statement and want to put it in separate lines

Do I need a '/' at the end or not?????

Should it be like this

Code:
print $1,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,
         $2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,
         $2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2

or like this

Code:
print $1,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,  \
         $2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,              \
         $2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2,$2

Last edited by kristinu; 10-17-2010 at 05:27 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS

igawk

IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME

       igawk - gawk with include files

SYNOPSIS

       igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
       igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...

DESCRIPTION

       Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).

       AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like

	      @include getopt.awk

       in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.

OPTIONS

       See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.

EXAMPLES

       cat << EOF > test.awk
       @include getopt.awk

       BEGIN {
	    while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
		 ...
       }
       EOF

       igawk -f test.awk

SEE ALSO

       gawk(1)

       Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.

AUTHOR

       Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).

Free Software Foundation					    Nov 3 1999								  IGAWK(1)
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