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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Add a field separator (comma) inside a line of a CSV file Post 302905474 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 11th of June 2014 06:58:37 PM
Old 06-11-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tawpie
(thanks Mod for adding the code tags -- it wasn't "code" per say so it didn't dawn on me. I'll be better, promise!)
Please use CODE tags for sample input, output, and code. The CODE tags preserve the differences between spaces and tabs and keep multiple adjacent spaces distinct. Without the CODE tags, long input lines can be split and whitespace characters can be coalesced into single spaces.

If your input contains lines where the 5th field does not contain any spaces (and you still want to add a comma to create an empty new 6th field before the original 6th field), you could try:
Code:
awk -F, 'sub(/ |$/, ",", $5)' OFS=, file

With the input:
Code:
Field 1,Field 2 is here,Field 3 is a bit more verbose,Field 4,Fifth field,Field 6
Field 1,Field 2 is here,Field 3 is a bit more verbose,Field 4,Fifth field more,Field 6
Field 1,Field 2 is here,Field 3 is a bit more verbose,Field 4,Fifth,Field 6
Field 1,Field 2 is here,Field 3 is a bit more verbose,Field 4,,Field 6

it produces the output:
Code:
Field 1,Field 2 is here,Field 3 is a bit more verbose,Field 4,Fifth,field,Field 6
Field 1,Field 2 is here,Field 3 is a bit more verbose,Field 4,Fifth,field more,Field 6
Field 1,Field 2 is here,Field 3 is a bit more verbose,Field 4,Fifth,,Field 6
Field 1,Field 2 is here,Field 3 is a bit more verbose,Field 4,,,Field 6

This User Gave Thanks to Don Cragun For This Post:
Tawpie
 

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