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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk remove line feed Post 302534945 by aigles on Wednesday 29th of June 2011 08:06:08 AM
Old 06-29-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by scottn
Code:
$ awk '{printf} !NR%3{print ""}' file
1,2,3,
4,5,6,

Using printf without any argument is dangerous.
If $0 contains format sequence like %s or %d, awk will failed.
An example:
Code:
$ cat in.txt
aaa
bbb
__ %s __
ddd
$ awk '{printf; print "."}' in.txt
aaa.
bbb.
awk: not enough arguments in printf(__ %s __) or sprintf(__ %s __)
 record number 3
$

Allways specify an argument to printf.
Replace :
Code:
printf ;

with
Code:
printf "";

Jean-Pierre.
 

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly  the pclock command.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
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