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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Counting the number of characters Post 302600132 by Scrutinizer on Monday 20th of February 2012 07:17:43 AM
Old 02-20-2012
Just combine the two
Code:
awk -F, '{s=x;for(i=5;!($i>0) && i<=NF;i++)s=s OFS $i;sub(s,OFS i-5);$0=$0s}1' OFS=, infile

What had you tried yourself?

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 02-20-2012 at 09:30 AM..
 

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NAME
atf-sh [-s shell] -- interpreter for shell-based test programs SYNOPSIS
atf-sh script DESCRIPTION
atf-sh is an interpreter that runs the test program given in script after loading the atf-sh(3) library. atf-sh is not a real interpreter though: it is just a wrapper around the system-wide shell defined by ATF_SHELL. atf-sh executes the inter- preter, loads the atf-sh(3) library and then runs the script. You must consider atf-sh to be a POSIX shell by default and thus should not use any non-standard extensions. The following options are available: -s shell Specifies the shell to use instead of the value provided by ATF_SHELL. ENVIRONMENT
ATF_LIBEXECDIR Overrides the builtin directory where atf-sh is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes. ATF_PKGDATADIR Overrides the builtin directory where libatf-sh.subr is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes. ATF_SHELL Path to the system shell to be used in the generated scripts. Scripts must not rely on this variable being set to select a specific interpreter. EXAMPLES
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