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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Amend format of output from "last"command Post 302481232 by malts18 on Friday 17th of December 2010 06:41:50 AM
Old 12-17-2010
Thanks Franklin52.
Unfortunately, I am getting :- syntax error near line 1
bailing out near line 1

I created a script containing your code as follows :-
awk 'NF && !a[$1]++{NF=NF+1;print}' OFS="|" myfile
where myfile is the sorted output from the 'last' command.
Am I meant to set NF to a new file name ?
Or set [$1] to a runtime parameter ?
If so, what value ?
Sorry if any of this is obvious, but I am not an expert.
Thanks again for your help.

---------- Post updated at 12:41 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:23 AM ----------

Hi

I have worked out that I can use

Code:
 

    tr –s  ‘[:space:]’


to reduce the spaces to a single space, then
Code:
 

    sed “s/ /\|/g


to change the single space into a |.

Is there an easier method ?
 

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