Help with selecting column with awk for a txt file generated by excel
I am new to scripting/programming, so I apologize for any novice questions.
I have a tab delimited text file that was saved from excel xls file.
I am trying to select only the third column using awk command. My command line is as below:
Code:
cat test.txt | awk '{print $3}'
However, above command line only generates the first row of the third column. How can I generate a tab delimited text file from excel spread sheet that has correct formatting, so that awk command will select the entire column and not just the first row of the column?
Thank you for all your help. I did try searching in this forum and google, but I could not find how to make the the txt file with correct format.
Thanks again.
Last edited by vbe; 09-22-2011 at 12:57 PM..
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
pr
PR(1) General Commands Manual PR(1)NAME
pr - print file
SYNOPSIS
pr [ option ... ] [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Pr produces a printed listing of one or more files on its standard output. The output is separated into pages headed by a date, the name
of the file or a specified header, and the page number. With no file arguments, pr prints its standard input.
Options apply to all following files but may be reset between files:
-n Produce n-column output.
+n Begin printing with page n.
-b Balance columns on last page, in case of multi-column output.
-d Double space.
-en Set the tab stops for input text every n spaces.
-h Take the next argument as a page header (file by default).
-in Replace sequences of blanks in the output by tabs, using tab stops set every n spaces.
-f Use formfeeds to separate pages.
-ln Take the length of the page to be n lines instead of the default 66.
-m Print all files simultaneously, each in one column.
-n Number the lines of each file.
-on Offset the left margin n character positions.
-sc Separate columns by the single character c instead of aligning them with white space. A missing c is taken to be a tab.
-t Do not print the 5-line header or the 5-line trailer normally supplied for each page.
-wn For multi-column output, take the width of the page to be n characters instead of the default 72.
SOURCE
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SEE ALSO cat(1), lp(1)PR(1)