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# 1  
Old 04-26-2010
AWK FS
Hello everyone,
can anyone please help?
I have this generic line from a cron file saved into a file named testInput:
Code:
12 8-17,1 * * 1-5 /myroot/TEST/bin/testJob.ksh TEST 1>/myroot/TEST/logs/testJob.log 2>1

when I use awk to get the second field I only get 8-17.
I even tried to force the separator to be a space, yet it only returns 8-17 while I would expect 8-17,1 .
Here is the line ....
Code:
awk 'BEGIN { FS = " " };{printf(" %s",$2)}' testInput

Can you tell me what am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
# 2  
Old 04-26-2010
A
Code:
awk '{print $2}' testInput

should be totally sufficient.

Do you have another box with another version of awk maybe where could try this line?

Default awk FS is any number of spaces (blanks and tabs). Strange behaviour in my eyes.
# 3  
Old 04-26-2010
It works properly on my machine, I got "8-17,1".
# 4  
Old 04-26-2010
Surprising,

for me it's working fine:
Code:
 
 
TESTBOX>cat i_file
12      8-17,1 * * 1-5 /myroot/TEST/bin/testJob.ksh TEST 1>/myroot/TEST/logs/testJob.log 2>1
TESTBOX>awk '{ print $2 }' i_file
8-17,1

# 5  
Old 04-26-2010
asterisk?
I see a possible problem.
The asterisk symbols on input might be evaluated in awk as an expression.


Code:
cat testInput | awk -F' ' '{printf(" %s",$2)}'
8-17,113

See how two ones' (11) came together, and those were separated by two asterisk symbols.
# 6  
Old 04-26-2010
Thanks
Everything now works ..... there was a probelm with my data file ......
Thanks again!
# 7  
Old 04-26-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by masta
I see a possible problem.
The asterisk symbols on input might be evaluated in awk as an expression.


Code:
cat testInput | awk -F' ' '{printf(" %s",$2)}'
8-17,113

See how two ones' (11) came together, and those were separated by two asterisk symbols.
I don't think so , from where you got "3" in your output then?..
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