[PLUG] gawk: repeating a field in printed output

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Jun 15 22:45:07 UTC 2018


On Fri, 15 Jun 2018, Michael Rasmussen wrote:

> Having not used awk in 20 years or so my wild ass guess is you need to add 
> commas at the ends of lines 2 and 3, unless awk treats newlines as argument 
> separators.
>
> 1 BEGIN { FS="," }
> 2   { print $1, "00:00", $2"\n"
> 3       $1, "01:00", $3"\n"
> 4       $1, "02:00", $4"\n"
> 5   }
>
> And editing the script to add those commas and run on locally generated test 
> data shows that to be the case.

   Thanks, Michael. I totally spaced that!

Regards,

Rich



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