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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to awk or grep the last column in file when date on column contains spaces? Post 302887998 by kieranfoley on Wednesday 12th of February 2014 07:05:36 AM
Old 02-12-2014
How to awk or grep the last column in file when date on column contains spaces?
Hi have a large spreadsheet which has 4 columns

Code:
APM00111803814  server_2        96085   Corp IT Desktop and Apps
APM00111803814  server_2         96085   Corp IT Desktop and Apps
APM00111803814  server_2        96034   Storage Mgmt Team
APM00111803814  server_2        96152   GWP Implementations UK
APM00111803814  server_2        96138   GWP Production-UK
APM00111803814  server_2        96109   GWP Production - US

I need to be able to read this file and define a variable for each entry in each column. The last column has spaces but I want to be able to read it a one variable. I am trying to put it into a while loop but the last column will only read the first word/characters (for example in the first line Corp)

For example

Code:
while read c1 c2 c3 c4
do
echo "$c1 $c2 $c3 $c4"
done < file.txt

Obviously this does not work. Can anybody help me out with this?
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 02-12-2014 at 08:07 AM.. Reason: code tags also for data
 

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PSC(1)							      General Commands Manual							    PSC(1)

NAME

       psc - prepare sc files

SYNOPSIS

       psc [-fLkrSPv] [-s cell] [-R n] [-C n] [-n n] [-d c]

DESCRIPTION

       Psc  is used to prepare data for input to the spreadsheet calculator sc(1).  It accepts normal ascii data on standard input.  Standard out-
       put is a sc file.  With no options, psc starts the spreadsheet in cell A0.  Strings are right justified.  All data on a line is entered	on
       the  same row; new input lines cause the output row number to increment by one.	The default delimiters are tab and space.  The column for-
       mats are set to one larger than the number of columns required to hold the largest value in the column.

OPTIONS

       -f     Omit column width calculations.  This option is for preparing data to be merged with an existing spreadsheet.  If the option is  not
	      specified, the column widths calculated for the data read by psc will override those already set in the existing spreadsheet.

       -L     Left justify strings.

       -k     Keep  all  delimiters.   This  option  causes the output cell to change on each new delimiter encountered in the input stream.   The
	      default action is to condense multiple delimiters to one, so that the cell only changes once per input data item.

       -r     Output the data by row first then column.  For input consisting of a single column, this option will result in  output  of  one  row
	      with multiple columns instead of a single column spreadsheet.

       -s cell
	      Start  the  top  left  corner  of the spreadsheet in cell.  For example, -s B33 will arrange the output data so that the spreadsheet
	      starts in column B, row 33.

       -R n   Increment by n on each new output row.

       -C n   Increment by n on each new output column.

       -n n   Output n rows before advancing to the next column.  This option is used when the input is  arranged  in  a  single  column  and  the
	      spreadsheet is to have multiple columns, each of which is to be length n.

       -d c   Use the single character c as the delimiter between input fields.

       -P     Plain numbers only.  A field is a number only when there is no imbedded [-+eE].

       -S     All numbers are strings.

       -v     Print the version of psc

SEE ALSO

       sc(1)

AUTHOR

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