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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Store a column from an excel sheet (exported to txt) into a variable Post 302597159 by Corona688 on Thursday 9th of February 2012 11:28:01 AM
Old 02-09-2012
That's a useless use of cat and dangerous use of backticks. the for-loop is splitting on spaces, not just lines, which ruins your data. Also, Never use external utilities to process individual lines if you can possibly help it; externals are fast, but also have a fixed cost for loading and quitting time. Running them repeatedly for small quantities of data is like making 9,000 phone calls to say 9,000 words.Shell has a way to do all of these things natively without using awk or cat, which will be hundreds of times faster.

Code:
while IFS="\"" read C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 REST
do
        echo "Column 18 is ${C18}"
done < txt

 

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