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# 1  
Old 02-19-2020
awk to convert CSV into colums
My file (FILE1) looks like this:
Code:
HiringManager_RHMC, DirectSupervisor_RHMC, ProcessServerReadAccess_ST

I'd like to turn into:
Code:
HiringManager_RHMC
DirectSupervisor_RHMC
ProcessServerReadAccess_ST

I tried awk -F, '{print $1 $3}' FILE1
and result as this:
Code:
HiringManager_RHMC ProcessServerReadAccess_ST

Thank you in advance!
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Last edited by vgersh99; 02-19-2020 at 12:42 PM.. Reason: code tags, please!
# 2  
Old 02-19-2020
Hi,

If you're wanting to print the separate fields of a CSV out one per line, then something like this would work:

Code:
$ cat test.csv
HiringManager_RHMC,DirectSupervisor_RHMC,ProcessServerReadAccess_ST
$ awk -F, '{print $1"\n"$2"\n"$3}' < test.csv      
HiringManager_RHMC
DirectSupervisor_RHMC
ProcessServerReadAccess_ST
$

Hope this helps - if it doesn't quite work for you then if you can let us know what doesn't work I'm sure we can help further.
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# 3  
Old 02-19-2020
Code:
echo 'HiringManager_RHMC, DirectSupervisor_RHMC, ProcessServerReadAccess_ST' | awk -F, '$1=$1' OFS='\n'

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# 4  
Old 02-19-2020
Not sure this works with all tr versions:


Code:
echo "HiringManager_RHMC, DirectSupervisor_RHMC, ProcessServerReadAccess_ST" | tr -s ', ' '\n'
HiringManager_RHMC
DirectSupervisor_RHMC
ProcessServerReadAccess_ST


Code:
tr --version
tr (GNU coreutils) 8.30

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# 5  
Old 02-20-2020
All 3 resolutions worked for me perfectly. Thank you so much. you guys never fail to help out. Thanks again!
# 6  
Old 02-20-2020
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Not sure this works with all tr versions:


Code:
echo "HiringManager_RHMC, DirectSupervisor_RHMC, ProcessServerReadAccess_ST" | tr -s ', ' '\n'
HiringManager_RHMC
DirectSupervisor_RHMC
ProcessServerReadAccess_ST

Code:
tr --version
tr (GNU coreutils) 8.30

Does not work with all tr versions, because each character,range,class in arg1 should match a character,range,class in arg2.
The following is portable:
Code:
echo "HiringManager_RHMC, DirectSupervisor_RHMC, ProcessServerReadAccess_ST" | tr -s ', ' '\n\n'

The tr substitutes each space or comma, regardless where they occur.
The following sed script takes a ", " (two character) delimiter; a single comma or space remains.
Code:
echo "HiringManager RHMC, DirectSupervisor RHMC, Process,ServerReadAccess_ST" | sed 's/, /\
/g'
HiringManager RHMC
DirectSupervisor RHMC
Process,ServerReadAccess_ST

GNU sed takes \n in the substitution string, so you can do
Code:
echo "HiringManager RHMC, DirectSupervisor RHMC, Process,ServerReadAccess_ST" | sed 's/, /\n/g'

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