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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting AWK - Ignoring White Space with FS Post 302598752 by ctsgnb on Wednesday 15th of February 2012 10:38:22 AM
Old 02-15-2012
Otherwise you can try renaming the file with a character that is not listed in the possible FS example:

Code:
12345_smith-johnson-jones_bubba_12345_20120215_4_0.pdf

then run your script again

I am reluctant to suppress the space from the -F list , since if the coder added it to the list, maybe it is used to process some further step in the awk script. So if you remove it, you have to make sure that it has no impact on the remaining awk code.

Last edited by ctsgnb; 02-15-2012 at 11:45 AM..
 

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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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