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I have 3 column

computes 21312 brand
toastesr 213 brand
printer 2132 brand
tV 1232 brand

I want to display the first and 3 column
I try to use $ awk -f " " `{print $1, " ", $3}' myfilename

and it doenst work.. help..

awk -F" " '{print $1, " ", $3}' myfilename

thanx bro that was a good help... apreciated...

Just for info...

In this case, you don't need (I'm working with GNU awk here) the -F to specify the field separator, nor do you need to specify whitespace in the output, the comma will "expand" to a single space in the output.

e.g.

awk '{ print $1, $3 }' myfilename

Also, for info, you could use cut, but then you'd need to explicitly define the delimiter,

e.g.

cut -d' ' -f1,3 file

Just some thoughts...

Cheers
ZB (always trying to save a few keystrokes )

This is true for every awk and cut I know about, not just the GNU versions.