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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers awk output problem Post 302488745 by sanjay.login on Tuesday 18th of January 2011 10:27:02 AM
Old 01-18-2011
awk output problem

Hi Gurus,

I have a file which has some fields separated with multiple spaces or single space.

data
1 2 3 4 5 6
4 5 5 7 7 8 9
4 6 10

and so on.....


The problem I am facing is the output of the awk program automatically squeeze the multiple spaces to single space.

I used the command
Code:
awk '{$1=1;print $0}' data

the output I got
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 5 5 7 7 8 9
1 6 10

I need the multiple space format(the actual content)

And I think this happens pint $0 is behaving like $1,$2 and so on.(I also want to know if that then why it is not behaving in the same way when we run "awk '{print $0}' file_name)

Longlive,
Sanjay
 

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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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