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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Change delimiter is not working using awk Post 303013152 by Don Cragun on Thursday 15th of February 2018 08:59:05 PM
Old 02-15-2018
With the awk that is shipped with AIX, there is no reason why the code suggested by RavinderSingh13:
Code:
awk -F, '{$1=$1} 1' OFS=":" 2.txt

and the equivalent code suggested byabdulbadii:
Code:
awk -F, '{$1=$1}1' OFS=: 2.txt

should not produce the output you say you want as long as a text file named 2.txt contains the sample text you showed us in post #1 in this thread.

Note that I'm only talking about the output produced by these scripts on standard output; I'm not saying that either of these scripts would change the contents of 2.txt (since neither of them would make any change to the input file).

As noted by RudiC in post #10 in this thread, the awk script you included in post #1 is fundamentally different from the code suggested by RavinderSingh13 and by abdulbadii. The code you included should just copy the contents of the named input file(s) to standard output without making any changes (for the reasons RudiC mentioned in his post).
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