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# 1  
Old 01-06-2011
awk problem
I am trying to isolate a username that contains spaces

my input is like :
Code:
 
username          fullname
---------------------------------------------
SYSTEM              SYSTEM
quarantine           quarantine
nigel                   Nigel Hope
glennrosegarden   Glenn Rose-garden
Rachel Sharpe      Rachel Sharpe
Sue Purkins          Sue Purkins
Anthony              Anthony Loft
Stephanie Crooke  Stephanie Crooke
Hannah Northern   Hannah Northern
Darren Maynot      Darren Maynot
Pauline E Dawson  Pauline E. Dawson
Simon Parkin         Simon Parkin

I am using
Code:
awk 'BEGIN {FS= "  ";} {print $1}'

to try and isolate the first field

but it dosent work - any ideas ????

---------- Post updated at 09:04 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:01 AM ----------

ugh this forum strips out the whitespace between the fields !!!


username_______fullname
---------------------------------------------
SYSTEM_______SYSTEM
quarantine_______quarantine
nigel_______Nigel Hope
glennrosegarden_______Glenn Rose-Garden


i have shown it again using _ to represent those spaces

I hope it gives you enough idea of what im trying to achieve
Last edited by vbe; 01-06-2011 at 10:15 AM.. Reason: please use code tags, It will maintain format also...
# 2  
Old 01-06-2011
Space is default field separator. You don't need to set it explictly.
If you want to print only 1st column then
Code:
awk '{print $1}' inputFile

should work.
If you don't want 1st two header lines then
Code:
awk 'NR>2{print $1}' inputFile

# 3  
Old 01-06-2011
the problem is that the first field actually contains spaces sometimes
valid fields are

glennrosegarden
Rachel Sharpe
Pauline E Dawson

the difference that i was trying to exploit is that between the first field and the second field there are more than 1 space
# 4  
Old 01-06-2011
Assign 2 spaces to FS then:
Code:
awk 'BEGIN{FS="  "}{print $1}' inputFile

# 5  
Old 01-06-2011
I have done that with this awk 'BEGIN {FS= " ";} {print $1}'

(there are two spaces in there believe me) only it dosent work
# 6  
Old 01-06-2011
No space after the equal sign
If under solaris try nawk
Last edited by ctsgnb; 01-06-2011 at 10:27 AM..
# 7  
Old 01-06-2011
maybe I need to show the whole code im trying to get working

Code:
for name in $(zarafa-admin -l | awk 'BEGIN {FS = " ";} {print $1}')
do
zarafa-admin --details $name | egrep 'Username:*' | awk 'BEGIN {FS = " "}{print $1 $2}'
zarafa-admin --details $name | grep 'Current\ store\ size:*' | awk '{print $4}'
done

---------- Post updated at 09:23 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:22 AM ----------

ahh - no space - let me try
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