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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Field Separator in printf (awk) Post 302871353 by Jotne on Wednesday 6th of November 2013 03:37:57 AM
Old 11-06-2013
Field Separator in printf (awk)
I can not figure out how to set the Output filed separator in awk when using printf.

Example:
Code:
cat file
some data
here_is_more information

Requested output
Code:
some------------data
her_is_more-----information

Here are some that does not work:
Code:
awk '{printf "%-15s %s\n",$1,$2}' OFS="-" file
some            data
here_is_more    information

Code:
awk '{printf "%-15s-%s\n",$1,$2}' file
some           -data
here_is_more   -information

 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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