Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 00:54:15 -0400 From: Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Shell Script using Awk Message-ID: <20081102045414.GA13745@shepherd> In-Reply-To: <2daa8b4e0811011821q210ae3a5j8f612a0fc79e8844@mail.gmail.com> References: <2daa8b4e0811011821q210ae3a5j8f612a0fc79e8844@mail.gmail.com>
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David Allen <the.real.david.allen@gmail.com> 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
> ...
A small sh script:
#!/bin/sh
awk ' {
for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) {
printf("%s ", $i)
if (i % 7 == 0) { printf("\n") }
}
if (NF % 7 != 0) { printf("\n") }
} ' input
--
Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>
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