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Old 10-27-2009
line feed printing issue
I am have an issue with the carrige or line feed chars showing up on info converted to a pdf file from a Orcale tool. Any direction would be appericated.

ex.

Code:
John doe 12435       1     232344     1
Jane doe 12435       1     424343     1

when should be like this

Code:
John doe 12435           232344     
Jane doe 12435           424343

Last edited by vgersh99; 10-27-2009 at 12:59 PM.. Reason: code tags, please!
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Old 10-28-2009
Code:
# cat file
John doe 12435       1     232344     1
Jane doe 12435       1     424343     1

# awk '{print $1,$2,$3"\t\t"$5}' file
John doe 12435          232344
Jane doe 12435          424343

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