I run these codes and worked, but the only change I made is use gawk or awk instead of nawk (I havenīt installed it).
Code:
$ awk -F"|" '{print $3}' file
SCIENCE BOOKS
PHILOSOPHIAE NATURALIS PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA (1687)
Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems (1632)
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (1543)
the voyage of the beagle (1845)
Code:
$ awk -F"|" '{$3=tolower($3); print $3}' file | gawk -f capitalize
Science Books
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)
Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World Systems (1632)
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (1543)
The Voyage Of The Beagle (1845)
I think this probes your code works fine, I donīt now why run it in the other way failed to me.
That's wrong, cgkmal. The "-F" switch is followed by the pattern to split on. It's a regular expression pattern and not a literal string. You can enclose it within double-quotes or single-quotes, but that doesn't make it a literal string. The character "|" has a special meaning in regular expression terminology; it is the "OR" operator.
If you want to specify the literal pipe character as the delimiter, then you'll have to remove the special meaning of "OR" operator. And you do that by escaping the OR operator like so "\|".
The OR operator "|", when supplied as a delimiter to the split function, works like the undef or null string. The net effect is that it splits on each character. Note how the operation on $F[1] worked only on the second character - that's because after the split, $F[1] was the character "R" or "r" of your inputfile.
The one-liner below should make that clear:
Code:
$
$
$ echo "abcd|1234" | perl -F"|" -lane 'print $F[1]'
b
$
$ # In this one-liner, the input was split on each character due to "|"
$ # So, $F[1] was the second element of array @F i.e. "b"
$
$
$ echo "abcd|1234" | perl -F"\|" -lane 'print $F[1]'
1234
$
$ # In this one-liner, the input was split on correctly due to "\|"
$ # So, $F[1] was the second element of array @F i.e. "1234"
$
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