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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Field Separator in printf (awk) Post 302871357 by CarloM on Wednesday 6th of November 2013 03:45:20 AM
Old 11-06-2013
printf doesn't use OFS, just whatever you specify in the format string. You can explicitly supply OFS as a %s argument if you want though:
Code:
awk '{printf "%-15s%s%s\n",$1,OFS,$2}' OFS="-" file

 

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