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# 15  
Old 11-22-2011
You are right to mark out identifying elements; the information I was looking for was there. Try running the command using nawk rather than awk:

Code:
nawk '
{ 
   gsub( ";", "", $0 );       # this might not be needed
   for( i=2; i <= NF; i += 2 ) 
       printf( "%d ", $(i)+0 ); 
   printf( "\n" ); 
 }'  input-file

For reasons unknown to me, awk on Solaris machines is very old and doesn't support many/any of the features found in modern versions of the tool. The installation of nawk seems to do better.
Last edited by agama; 11-22-2011 at 12:06 AM.. Reason: formatting
# 16  
Old 11-22-2011
In Solaris, you can use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk

--ahamed
# 17  
Old 11-22-2011
oh i see =/

Ugh I'm trying so hard to understand bash but I'm not sure how to make it easy to learn. For some reason I'm finding it really difficult lol, and as I said before I have to learn bash on my own for a project due on Dec. 12 =/

I'm getting frustrated because I have no idea how to properly use most of the features of bash =/

Thanks for the replies, I'm going to be working hardcore on this starting tomorrow night. I have a final exam tomorrow :S gotta look over notes one last time then sleep :/
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