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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with cut or awk command Post 302908546 by mirni on Tuesday 8th of July 2014 02:32:58 PM
Old 07-08-2014
Tricky part is that commas may be present within the field (that's why the quotes)
Yoda's solution will not work for files that have more than 6 columns, or files that have commas in the last two fields. E.g. file
Code:
a1,a2,"a,3",a4,a5,a6
b1,"b,2",b3,b4,b5,"b6,b999",b10
c1,"c,2","c,3",c4,c5,c6

will become
Code:
$ awk -F, '{$(NF-2)=$(NF-1) FS $NF;NF-=2}1' OFS=, file
a1,a2,"a,3",a5,a6
b1,"b,2",b3,b4,b5,b999",b10
c1,"c,2","c,3",c5,c6

Probably not what you want.

I would suggest the following approach:
1. protect the comma within quotes by substituting it with some character
2. get rid of the 4th field
3. substitute the protect character with comma to get back the original

Try this solution:
Code:
sed  's/"\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\)"/"\1\x1C\2"/g' file  | awk -F, '{$4 = ""}1' OFS=, | sed 's/,,/,/g ; s/\x1C/,/g'

Explanation:
Code:
sed  's/"\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\)"/"\1\x1C\2"/g' file  # replace commas within quotes with \x1C (non-ascii character unlikely to be in your file)
awk -F, '{$4 = ""}1' OFS=,                        # strip the fourth field -- now it is safe to split them by commas
sed 's/,,/,/g ; s/\x1C/,/g'                       # get rid of double commas and replace \x1C back to comma for quoted commas

 

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