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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk - How to preserve whitespace? Post 302767377 by Chubler_XL on Wednesday 6th of February 2013 06:30:18 PM
Old 02-06-2013
Still unhappy with my solution, think this works much better:

Code:
awk '
function rep(a,v) {
  sub("^(([^ \t]+[ \t]+){"a-1"})","&" SUBSEP);
  sub(SUBSEP "[^ \t]+", v);
}   
/^\// {
    rep(3,"13")
    rep(4,"*")
    rep(5,"$W1")
} 1' newsyslog.conf

Last edited by Chubler_XL; 02-06-2013 at 07:49 PM..
 

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