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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem with formatting text with awk Post 302577640 by felipe.vinturin on Tuesday 29th of November 2011 01:47:10 PM
Old 11-29-2011
Isn't it:
Code:
# Awk indexed by number
grep "$uId" database.txt | awk -F":" '{print "User ID:\t"$1"\nLast Name:\t"$2"\netc ..."}'

# Example:
# echo "4071:Gills:Roberts:Maple Dr.:702346789" | awk -F":" '{
print "User ID:\t" $1
print "Last Name:\t" $2
print "First Name:\t" $3
print "Address:\t" $4
print "Phone#:\t\t" $5
}'
User ID:        4071
Last Name:      Gills
First Name:     Roberts
Address:        Maple Dr.
Phone#:         702346789

# Your command must be:
# grep "$uId" database.txt | \
awk -F":" '{
			print "User ID:\t" $1 
			print "Last Name:\t" $2
			print "First Name:\t" $3
			print "Address:\t" $4
			print "Phone#:\t\t" $5
		}'

Try to check awk's functions: printf and sprintf!
Last edited by felipe.vinturin; 11-29-2011 at 02:57 PM..
 

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