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Old 12-16-2009
cat a field and add a char
I tried to readout the forth word of a file and add a ',' after each occurance and write the result in a file, but following code doesn't work

Code:
 
cat output.csv | cut -d ';' -f4 || ', '>> NR.txt

# 2  
Old 12-16-2009
Try this:

Code:
awk -F";" '{print $4 ","}' output.csv >> NR.txt

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Old 12-16-2009
thank you, your code looks very interessting and works Smilie
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