Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:19:24 -0600 From: Don Hinton <don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Alexandre Vieira <nullpt@gmail.com> Subject: Re: awk question Message-ID: <200601201719.29153.don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu> In-Reply-To: <755cb9fc0601201459v643bf464i892ef3efc68dc788@mail.gmail.com> References: <755cb9fc0601201459v643bf464i892ef3efc68dc788@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Alexandre:
On Friday 20 January 2006 16:59, Alexandre Vieira wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I'm making a script to generate some statistics for a batch job and I'm
> stuck with awk.
>
> For example:
>
> %echo 1 2 3 4 5 6 | awk {'print $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6'}
>
> it will output:
>
> 1 2 3 4 5 6
>
> I want to tokenize a string with another separating char (the : char):
>
> %echo 1:2:3:4:5:6
>
> and with awk to output:
>
> 1 2 3 4 5 6
>
> Is there any way of doing this?
Sure. Here's a link to the online awk documentation section on field=20
seperators...
http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Field-Separators.html#Fie=
ld-Separators
ciao...
don
>
> Real example:
>
> I have a log file with the following output:
> 2006-01-20 - 20:01:07 - Some text
> 2006-01-20 - 20:01:15 - Some text
> 2006-01-20 - 20:01:38 - Some text
> (...)
>
> and since I'm generating hourly stats I need to match the "20" which is in
> a string "20:01:07" that is separated by the char ":".
>
> I hope I've been clear.
>
> Thanks for your help.
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