On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 18:21:55 -0700, "David Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. Is this what you're after? $ cat input col1 col2 col3 col4 col5 col6 col7 col8 col9 col10 col11 col12 col13 col14 col15 col16 .... cat input | awk -F\ '{for (i=1;i<NF;i+=7) print $i,$(i+1),$(i+2),$(i+3),$(i+4),$(i+5),$(i+6) }' > > Thanks! > > -- > David "promising never to do this again" Allen > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"