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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk - cut out and write new Post 302688367 by Rob Butler on Saturday 18th of August 2012 11:12:54 PM
Old 08-19-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by alister
A simpler approach:
Code:
awk -F, '{print substr($1,1,6) substr($1,9,2), $NF}' OFS='\t' input.csv

Regards,
Alister
At first I didn't notice his request to reverse mm and dd from the input file, so your approach is most likely best as cut can't reorder fields like awk can. But you'll need to change your code to:

Code:
awk -F, '{print substr($1,4,3) substr($1,1,3) substr($1,9,2), $NF}' OFS='\t' input.csv

-Rob.
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