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Old 04-27-2012
Printing names using awk?
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Mike Harrington:(510) 548-1278:250:100:175                   
Christian Dobbins:(408) 538-2358:155:90:201                   
Susan Dalsass:(206) 654-6279:250:60:50

Need to learn how to print each record preceded by the number of the record using awk.



Code:
awk -F '|' '{print NF}'

would it be something like this?
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Old 04-28-2012
This looks familiar... You even gave -F: in your last post. Do you know why you tried -F'|' this time? Do you want that as the output delimiter?

The entire record is $0. NF is number of fields in a record (5 for these). NR is the record number.

Code:
awk -F: '{print NR,$0}'

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Old 04-28-2012
Code:
nl infile

Code:
nl -s: infile

Code:
     1:Mike Harrington:(510) 548-1278:250:100:175                   
     2:Christian Dobbins:(408) 538-2358:155:90:201                   
     3:Susan Dalsass:(206) 654-6279:250:60:50
     4:Archie McNichol:(206) 548-1348:250:100:175
     5:Jody Savage:(206) 548-1278:15:188:150
     6:Guy Quigley:(916) 343-6410:250:100:175
     7:Dan Savage:(406) 298-7744:450:300:275
     8:Nancy McNeil:(206) 548-1278:250:80:75
     9:John Goldenrod:(916) 348-4278:250:100:175
    10:Chet Main:(510) 548-5258:50:95:135
    11:Tom Savage:(408) 926-3456:250:168:200
    12:Elizabeth Stachelin:(916) 440-1763:175:75:300

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