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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk field separator help - Post 302848073 by rveri on Wednesday 28th of August 2013 11:51:06 AM
Old 08-28-2013
awk field separator help -

Hi Experts ,


file :

Code:
[ Aug 19 21:02 apptime_flagECQAPP ] [ Aug 19 21:02 apptime_flagBWQAPP ] [ Aug 24 01:04 apptime_flagE2DAPP ]
[ Aug 24 01:43 apptime_flagECTAPP ] [ Aug 25 10:02 apptime_flagE2QAPP ] [ Aug 26 17:02 apptime_flagDELQAS ]
[ Aug 28 01:47 apptime_flagMOWSQ101 ] [ Aug 28 01:47 apptime_flagMOWSD101 ] [ Aug 28 01:47 apptime_flagMOWSQ102 ]
[ Aug 28 01:49 apptime_flagBWTAPP ] [ Aug 28 01:49 apptime_flagMOWSD001 ] [ Aug 28 01:49 apptime_flagMOWSQ002 ]

- How to construct the awk filed separator so that $1, $2 $3 , can be assigned to the each "[ ]" range.


I am trying : awk -F"[\[\]]" '{print $1}'
but it is printing the entire file. Not first field.




The desired output needed for first field is:

Code:
[ Aug 19 21:02 apptime_flagECQAPP ]       
[ Aug 24 01:43 apptime_flagECTAPP ]        
[ Aug 28 01:47 apptime_flagMOWSQ101 ]
[ Aug 28 01:49 apptime_flagBWTAPP ]


Thanks in advance.
 

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