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06-29-2011

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@krrishv

I have removed numbers and spaces from all the rows and tried like below...

Code:

cat checkit.sh
Identifier,Username,First_Name,Middle,Last_Name,Employee_ID,City,RS Code,Postal,Email_addr,HomePhone,WorkPhone,Internal,Ethnic_Question,Ethnic_Questio
n,USA_EEO2_Ethnicity_Answer,USA_EEO2_Race_Question,USA_EEO2_Race_Question,USA_EEO2_Race_Answer,Gende r_Question,Gender_Question,Gender,SSOID^M
"67042","67042","A","","Jones","67042","Georgetown","US","78628","AJ_Jones@amat.com","+1 512-863-2043","+1 512-272-3247","TRUE","-1","-1","-3","-2","-2","-9","-3","-3","-11","67042"^M
"113021","113021","Aan Wooi","","Mu","113021","Tampines","MY","520852","Aan_Wooi_Mu@amat.com","","+65 98374227","TRUE","-1","-1","-1","-2","-2","-4","-3","-3","-11","113021"^M
"66872","66872","Aaron","","Hunter","66872","Santa Cruz","US","95060","Aaron_Hunter@amat.com","+1 408-458-0959","+1 408-584-0592","TRUE","-1","-1","-3","-2","-2","-9","-3","-3","-11","66872"^M
"70277","70277","Aaron","","Maciej","70277","Austin","US","78729","Aaron_Maciej@amat.com","+1 512-635-9991","+1 512-272-3617","TRUE","-1","-1","-3","-2","-2","-9","-3","-3","-11","70277"^M
"79145","79145","Aaron","","Wei","79145","Hsin Chu","TW","N/A","Aaron_Wei@amat.com","+886 35323094","+1 886-3-579-3464","TRUE","-1","-1","-1","-2","-2","-4","-3","-3","-11","79145"^M
"103260","103260","Aaron","","Liu","103260","Lingya District","TW","802","Aaron_Liu@amat.com","+886 88677615344","+1 886-4-22172610","TRUE","-1","-1","-1","-2","-2","-4","-3","-3","-11","103260"^M
"104267","104267","Aaron","","Himmler","104267","San Jose","US","95136","Aaron_Himmler@amat.com","+1 (703) 8955735","+1 408-584-0249","TRUE","-1","-1","-3","-2","-2","-9","-3","-3","-11","104267"^M

 
cat checkit.sh | awk -F "," '{print $7}' | tail -7
"Georgetown"
"Tampines"
"Santa Cruz"
"Austin"
"Hsin Chu"
"Lingya District"
"San Jose"

Can u check, whether it is usefull for u??

Thanx

Last edited by Franklin52; 06-29-2011 at 04:11 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code and data samples, thank you

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