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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk output field delimiter Post 302545281 by jimmy_y on Monday 8th of August 2011 01:03:33 AM
Old 08-08-2011
awk output field delimiter

Dear All,

1.txt (tab in between each value in a line)
a b c
a b c
a c d

you can see below, why with ~ i can output with tab, but = cannot?
[root@]# awk -F'\t' '$2 ~ /b/' 1
a b c
a b c
[root@]# awk -F'\t' '$2 = "b"' 1
a b c
a b c
a b d

Please advice.


Thanks
 

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TZSELECT(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       TZSELECT(8)

NAME
tzselect - select a time zone SYNOPSIS
tzselect DESCRIPTION
The tzselect program asks the user for information about the current location, and outputs the resulting time zone description to standard output. The output is suitable as a value for the TZ environment variable. All interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard error. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
AWK Name of a Posix-compliant awk program (default: awk). TZDIR Name of the directory containing time zone data files (default: /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo). FILES
TZDIR/iso3166.tab Table of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names. TZDIR/zone.tab Table of country codes, latitude and longitude, TZ values, and descriptive comments. TZDIR/TZ Time zone data file for time zone TZ. EXIT STATUS
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