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get value of 200th field by awk
Name: sivakarthik Date: October 6, 2005 at 09:47:28 Pacific OS: Unix CPU/Ram: 512MB
Comment:
Hi, I'm not able to get the value of 200th field using awk. Can you please help me
Thanks Siva
Hi, I'm trying to replace a column in a comma seperated file with a column in another file using sed/awk. Can anyone help me.
Name: sivakarthik Date: October 6, 2005 at 10:21:32 Pacific
Reply:
awk -F['|'] '{print $200}' GMS.txt gave the following error
awk: The field 200 must be in the range 0 to 199.
please help.
Thanks Siva
Hi, I'm trying to replace a column in a comma seperated file with a column in another file using sed/awk. Can anyone help me.
Thanks Siva
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Response Number 2
Name: Jim Boothe Date: October 6, 2005 at 10:50:09 Pacific
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I specified a delimiter that I knew would not exist in my file so that awk would see the lines as having only one long field (to prevent the abort). Then I split the lines into my own array and printed the 200th array slot.
awk -F: '{split($0,f," ");print f[200]}' infile
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Response Number 3
Name: sivakarthik Date: October 7, 2005 at 01:19:42 Pacific
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Great, that helps. Thanks Jim.
Siva
Hi, I'm trying to replace a column in a comma seperated file with a column in another file using sed/awk. Can anyone help me.
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