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Date:      Sat, 1 Nov 2008 18:21:55 -0700
From:      "David Allen" <the.real.david.allen@gmail.com>
To:        "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   OT: Shell Script using Awk
Message-ID:  <2daa8b4e0811011821q210ae3a5j8f612a0fc79e8844@mail.gmail.com>

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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
...

Should be simple, but I'm getting nowhere.

Thanks!

-- 
David "promising never to do this again" Allen



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