Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 14:53:01 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Shell Script using Awk Message-ID: <200811021453.01646.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> In-Reply-To: <2daa8b4e0811011821q210ae3a5j8f612a0fc79e8844@mail.gmail.com> References: <2daa8b4e0811011821q210ae3a5j8f612a0fc79e8844@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sunday 02 November 2008 03:21:55 David Allen wrote: > My apologies for asking on this list, but I'm stuck without Perl and need > to use awk to generate a report. > > I'm working with a large data set spread across multiple files, but to > keep things simple, say I have A Very Long String that containing records, > each delimited by a single space. I need to print those records in > columnar format, but with only 7 columns per line: > > record1 record2 record3 record4 record5 record6 record7 > record08 record09 record10 record11 record12 record13 record14 Are you dead set on using awk(1)? Because my first thought would be rs(1). cat inputfile | rs 0 7 To turn your space-separated entries into 7 columns. You may need some fiddling about (to avoid running out of memory, space on the line, etc). This is one of my top three sadly-neglected BSD commands everyone should know more about, along with lam(1) and jot(1). Jonathan
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