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Forum: Shell Programming and Scripting 10-04-2012

How to print the first 7 characters of each column

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It works! Thanks a lot!

awk '{print substr($0,1,7)}' inputfile

My bad. Each column is

awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF; i++) {$i=substr($i,1,7) }
OFS=" "; print $0} ' infile

awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)...

Forum: Shell Programming and Scripting 10-03-2012

How to print the first 7 characters of each column

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How to print the first 7 characters of each column

Hello all,

I have a data like this:

X:04252 X:05524 X:04176
X:05509 X:05524 X:04674-
X:1662912 X:10181
X:16491 X:05506

X:05216- X:05488

X:46872 X:08471[]
X:04834 X:30170

The except...

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