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Old 11-04-2008
Hammer & Screwdriver Two slightly different ways to filter with awk

Code:
> echo "UPDATE", "3000020113", "1-01-01", "THB" , 300 | awk 'IFS="," {print $1,$2,$3,$4}'
UPDATE, 3000020113, 1-01-01, THB

> echo "UPDATE", "3000020113", "1-01-01", "THB" , 300 | awk -F, 'OFS="," {print $1,$2,$3,$4}'
UPDATE, 3000020113, 1-01-01, THB

# 9  
Old 11-04-2008
Thanks...But this is kind of hard coded. Right now i only have sample input data to test my script. and i have no idea about the total number of fileds. So i can't use this code to filter...can you please provide something else which will only cut off last column from the output regardless of number of columns in it.

Thanks again Smilie
# 10  
Old 11-05-2008
Ok, forget your script for a while and post the contents of the original file (not temporary files produced by your script) and the desired output.

Regards
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