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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to cut a pipe delimited file and paste it with another file to form a comma separated outputfile Post 302919836 by Don Cragun on Saturday 4th of October 2014 05:46:21 PM
Old 10-04-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by blastit.fr
You can try to add this filter that converts | to ","
Code:
... some code ...|awk -F\| -vOFS='","' '{print "\"" $1,$2,$3,$4 "\""}' > A4.txt

Jean-Paul
But, of course, the above script only works correctly if the input fed into it always has exactly four fields in the input (and I didn't see anything in this thread so far that places any limits on the number of fields).

The following should work (even keeping empty empty lines in the input empty in the output):
Code:
... some code ... | awk -F'|' -v OFS='","' 'NF{$1 = $1; $0 = "\"" $0 "\""}1' > A4.txt

If you want to try this on a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk, /usr/xpg6/bin/awk, or nawk.
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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). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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