Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 20:17:54 -0800 From: "David Allen" <the.real.david.allen@gmail.com> To: "Jeremy Chadwick" <koitsu@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Shell Script using Awk Message-ID: <2daa8b4e0811012117i5d3f30d3w9ea927679cb5e7b1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081102020344.GA80530@icarus.home.lan> References: <2daa8b4e0811011821q210ae3a5j8f612a0fc79e8844@mail.gmail.com> <20081102020344.GA80530@icarus.home.lan>
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On 11/1/08, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 06:21:55PM -0700, 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
>> ...
>>
>> Should be simple, but I'm getting nowhere.
>
> $ cat input
> col1 col2 col3 col4 col5 col6 col7 col8 col9 col10 col11 col12 col13 col14
>
> $ cat output.awk
> {
> print $1 " " $2 " " $3 " " $4 " " $5 " " $6 " " $7
> print $8 " " $9 " " $10 " " $11 " " $12 " " $13 " " $14
> }
>
> $ cat intput | awk -f output.awk
> col1 col2 col3 col4 col5 col6 col7
> col8 col9 col10 col11 col12 col13 col14
Thanks for the reply, Jeremy, but that approach would require an
entirely manual approach, which isn't suitable for what I'm working
with. Writing a script that's the same size as the data I'm working
with isn't an option. ;-)
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