-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Allen wrote: > On 11/1/08, Sahil Tandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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 >>> ... >> 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 > > An elegant solution if ever I read one. The mod operator should have > been the first thing that came to mind. > > I'm not sure whether I need a class in remedial math, or remedial awk, > but either way, my thanks for the solution.
Just in case you've never discovered column, piping the output of this to column -t will get you nice formatting for free. - -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5ABC 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkkNlBEACgkQJvkB8Sevrsv6lwCdHk5llGh4ZG+0CnQLARJDqGD9 0AEAniRtmjDNfKXHdsGAudA3uiwYFB9f =IImT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"