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Old 01-03-2012
Inserting a new field inbetween two exisitng field
I have a '|' delimited file.

My file looks like below

23|nationalhoilday|feb12||||||||||||||california|northdistrict||

In the same way, each record has 164 fields. I have to insert one more field after the 85th field.

Expected output
23|nationalhoilday|feb12||||||||||||||california||northdistrict||

Someone please help me with this.
# 2  
Old 01-03-2012
Try with this ..
Code:
$ nawk 'BEGIN{FS="|";OFS="|"} {$85="some content|"$85; print}' infile

# 3  
Old 01-03-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by machomaddy
I have to insert one more field after the 85th field.
Try:
Code:
awk -F"|" '{$85=$85 FS}1' OFS="|" file

# 4  
Old 01-03-2012
nawk is not working for me. I get an error

Code:
-bash: nawk: command not found

---------- Post updated at 03:14 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:09 PM ----------

Franklin52: Thanks!! It woked Smilie

Jayan Jay:
Used gawk instead of nawk, it worked. Smilie

Code:
$ gawk 'BEGIN{FS="|";OFS="|"} {$85="some content|"$85; print}' infile

Thanks guys both of the codes work!!
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