Difference between revisions of "Linux command: awk"

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Print from 3rd field till end
 
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Revision as of 08:30, 10 February 2016

Comand line text processing Examples:

awk -F, '{print NR, length($0)}' filename.txt  #print line number and line length
awk '{print FILENAME " " length($0)}' */PRF* | uniq

awk 'BEGIN { FS = "," } ; { print $2 }'  #Specify separator ',' can be done with -F too.
awk -F"," '$2~/^ABC$/' file  #Find in a csv second field = ABC

Print from 3rd field till end

awk '{              \
       for (i = 3; i <= NF; i++) {   \
          printf("%s ", $i);         \
       }                             \
       printf("\n") }'