Delete only commas in a string in AWK


 
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Old 08-01-2012
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Originally Posted by mark.mohit
$ echo "h,e,l,l,o, world" |tr -d ','
hello world
i hope it will solve ur problem
Your suggestion will delete all commas(,) in a line but the requirement is, you have to delete commas in the first column and should not touch the rest.
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