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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Insert field between two fields using awk or sed Post 302858205 by RudiC on Sunday 29th of September 2013 01:00:35 PM
Old 09-29-2013
You don't need two awk cmds connected through a pipe; do it in one go:
Code:
awk -F'|' -v DT=$DATETIME -v CTL=$CONTROL 'BEGIN{OFS=";"} {print DT,$1,CTL,$11,$12,$16;}' $SUCCESSFILE

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