How to apply sub/gsub of awk on a particular field?


 
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Old 12-05-2007
How to apply sub/gsub of awk on a particular field?

I got a file with contents are of the following format

...
2007-09-28 ./.passwwd1.sh.swp
2007-11-26 ./827-55.jpg
2007-09-28 ./argcheck.pl
...

I have to delete all the '-' in the "first field", ie. the date, not on the second field, which is the name of the file.

i.e.
required output

...
20070928 ./.passwwd1.sh.swp
20071126 ./827-55.jpg
20070928 ./argcheck.pl
...

How to apply sub/gsub of awk on a particular field?
Could anyone please help me.
# 2  
Old 12-05-2007
Try:
Code:
 awk '{gsub(/-/,"",$1);print}' file

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