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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Format a date on additional column awk Post 303031801 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 6th of March 2019 03:18:44 AM
Old 03-06-2019
Expanding a little bit on what RudiC said ....

It looks like the file you are processing is partially in DOS text file format with some <carriage-return> <newline> character pair line separators instead of UNIX text file format <newline> single character line terminators. But, as RudiC said, we would expect that to happen on every line; not just the first and last.

Please confirm by running the command:
Code:
od -bc filename

where filename is the name of the input file you processed to get the output you showed us in post #7 in this thread.

To get rid of the <carriage-return>s in a file you can use:
Code:
tr -d '\r' < old_file > new_file

where old_file is the name of a file containing <carriage-return>s and new_file is the name of thee file that you want to contain the contents of old_file without the <carriage-return>s. If this is a common problem with input files you'll be processing, you can change the script I suggested before to be:
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
tr -d '\r' < HB.txt | while IFS=, read -r date rest
do	printf '%s,%s,%(%a)T\n' "$date" "$rest" "$date"
done

or:
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
while IFS=, read -r date rest
do	printf '%s,%s,%(%a)T\n' "$date" "$rest" "$date"
done < HB.txt | tr -d '\r'

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