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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Command line not recognizing metacharacters in awk Post 302913113 by jvoot on Wednesday 13th of August 2014 08:02:16 PM
Old 08-13-2014
Thanks so much for this pilnet101. Actually, I'm trying to get the space *after* the digit which follows the comma, that is to say, a space before the tab that delimits the field.

Ultimately, I'd like each record of the textfile to look like this:

Code:
1 Ps 1,1[space][tab] VWB/(J ...

I'm trying to add that [space] above to accommodate a future double digit, i.e.,

Code:
Ps 1,10[Tab]Field $2

So, I'm trying to add a single space when there is only one digit after the comma (,1 ) and not have that space when there are two digits after the comma (,11).

Thanks so much and I apologize for my inability to explain this sufficiently. I am very new to this.
 

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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWgawk | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Volatile | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for gawk is available on http://opensolaris.org. Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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