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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers File formatting with awk Post 303010265 by Don Cragun on Friday 29th of December 2017 02:28:54 AM
Old 12-29-2017
As has been suggested before, when posting in this forum please tell us what operating system and shell you're using.

And, instead of just showing us a three line sample input file and a three line sample output file, please also describe the logic that governs the changes you are trying to make.

The code you're using is going to a lot of effort to remove braces from the output, but since there aren't any braces in your sample input; it isn't clear why you are doing that.

The code you're using sets the output field separator to a comma, but your sample output seems to use semicolon as a field separator.

Please clearly explain what you are trying to do and be sure that the sample output you have provided really matches the output you hope to produce from that input.
 

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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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