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Re: Is it appropriate to ask user-oriented questions on this list?
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: Is it appropriate to ask user-oriented questions on this list? |
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Sun, 2 Dec 2007 09:59:29 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
cga2000 wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting awk parsing to work when fields are
> separated by two different characters (space and colon).
You may have to split into fields and then trim each field for
whitespace.
> First off I was wondering whether this is the correct place to ask.
After I convince you to install GNU awk there won't be any question. :-)
> Also, I am running this on debian linux and the implementation of awk
> that was installed by default is called "mawk".
This has been an often debated topic. Let's not open it here. But do
please try GNU awk. Also installing 'gawk-doc' from the non-free
depot is also highly recommended.
sudo apt-get install gawk
As far as your awk question is concerned, can you post a small example
that illustrates the issue? Something like the following would be
great. Then we could all follow along.
echo "one: two :three:four" | awk -F: '{print$2}'
Bob