On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Dave Ulrick wrote:
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
Oops! I zoomed in on the field separator issue without noticing that the
rest of your script isn't quite correct. Here's a one-liner that should
solve your stated problem:
awk -F "\t" '{print $2}' <filename>
This command will print the second tab-delimited field of every record of
a file.
Dave
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