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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk to delete fields from flat file Post 302870907 by Franklin52 on Tuesday 5th of November 2013 07:33:31 AM
Old 11-05-2013
What's wrong with the provided code:
Code:
awk -F"|" '/^354/{NF=NF-2;NF++}1' OFS="|" file

 

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