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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk - show field separator Post 302693125 by locoroco on Tuesday 28th of August 2012 04:43:43 PM
Old 08-28-2012
awk - show field separator

I am using this code to insert something into a csv file:
Code:
awk -F";" -v url=$url -v nr=$nr 'NR==nr{$2=url$2}1' file

Why do I get the output

field1 field2

instead of

field1;field2

I have given
Code:
-F";"

, so the field separator should surely be ";".
 

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URL(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    URL(4)

NAME
url -- Realtek RTL8150L USB Ethernet driver SYNOPSIS
url* at uhub? urlphy* at mii? DESCRIPTION
The url driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Realtek RTL8150L USB-ether bridge chip. The url driver supports the following adapters: CompUSA USBKR100 GreenHouse GH-USB100B Melco Inc. LUA-KTX Sitecom LN013 For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8). DIAGNOSTICS
url%d: watchdog timeout A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit command was issued, however the device failed to acknowledge the transmission before a timeout expired. url%d: no memory for rx list The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring. SEE ALSO
arp(4), mii(4), netintro(4), usb(4), ifconfig(8) HISTORY
The url device driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.6. AUTHORS
The url driver was written by Shingo WATANABE <nabe@nabechan.org>. BSD
September 18, 2006 BSD
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