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Old 04-10-2013
Help with splitting fields
Hi. I want to put the first field to the end and the lines are of different number of fields. How should I do this with awk? Thanks.
# 2  
Old 04-10-2013
Have you made any attempt to solve this yourself? If so, what was it?

Regards,
Alister
# 3  
Old 04-11-2013
Hi, Alister
Thanks for your reply
I tried with
Code:
awk '{for(i=2;i<=NF;i++)print $i;print $1}'

but every field was output in a newline.
How can I rid of the newlines. Thanks

Dustin
Last edited by Franklin52; 04-11-2013 at 04:40 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples
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Old 04-11-2013
You need to use printf in your code

Code:
awk '{for(i=2;i<=NF;i++)printf "%s ",$i;print $1}' infile

or

Code:
awk '{x=$1;sub(x,""); print $0,x}' infile

--ahamed
Last edited by ahamed101; 04-11-2013 at 04:35 AM..
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