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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Inserting new fields to a csv file Post 302847931 by midhun19 on Wednesday 28th of August 2013 05:18:56 AM
Old 08-28-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Try (untested):
Code:
awk -F, '{$2=$2 FS "status,starttime"} 1' OFS="," file

i tried and got the result as

Code:
 
: awk -F, '{$2=$2 FS "status,starttime"} 1' test.dat
1 jobname1,status,starttime somthing somthing
2 jobname2,status,starttime somthing somthing
3 jobname3,status,starttime somthing somthing
4 jobname4,status,starttime somthing somthing

some comas are missing from the original file

---------- Post updated at 04:18 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:15 AM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by midhun19
i tried and got the result as

Code:
 
: awk -F, '{$2=$2 FS "status,starttime"} 1' test.dat
1 jobname1,status,starttime somthing somthing
2 jobname2,status,starttime somthing somthing
3 jobname3,status,starttime somthing somthing
4 jobname4,status,starttime somthing somthing

some comas are missing from the original file

I think i missed OFS="," from the first post. Now I'm able to get the result as intended.

Thanks
 

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