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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Add delimiter to a file from layout file Post 302973032 by pravin27 on Friday 13th of May 2016 03:54:22 AM
Old 05-13-2016
what about field(s) from position 4 to 9 . Could you please provide your input file

I am assuming layout.txt will have all the fields in ascending order with no. of characters seperated by ","(comma).
Please try below code.

Code:
awk -F"," 'NR==FNR{a[NR]=$2;ln=NR;next;}
{ s=1
for(i=1;i<=ln;i++) {
str1=substr($0,s,a[i])
s=s+a[i]
printf i==ln ? str1"\n":str1"~"
}
 }' layout.txt abc.txt

Last edited by pravin27; 05-13-2016 at 05:01 AM..
 

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