Re: problem with awk

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On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Adel ESSAFI wrote:

Hello,
I have a "little" proble with awk
 here I have a file which contain data like this


101663.dat
1 122837.920343696
1 121875.899726134
1 8011.13164749145
1 24955.1102952732


when I execute

awk    'BEGIN { }
      echo $2
      END   { print "Fin" }
' testclean


I got this outpout

1 122837.920343696
1 121875.899726134
1 8011.13164749145
1 24955.1102952732

while I am expecting to get

122837.920343696
121875.899726134
8011.13164749145
24955.1102952732

without 1 at the beginning of the line. Can you help please.

Looks like a field separator (FS) problem. The field separator is used by 'awk' to divide a line into fields. The default 'awk' field separator is "\t" (tab) but your fields are separated by spaces. Try adding this inside the BEGIN {} block:


FS = " ";


This would give you a script like this:


awk    'BEGIN { FS = " "; }
      echo $2
      END   { print "Fin" }
' testclean

Alternatively, you may specify the field separator as an 'awk' option:

awk -F " " '<your script>' testclean

Dave
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