awk command

[scan]

is there a way, using awk, to print fields x - x (ie $3 - $10)?

 

[Sdashiki]

Um what?

i have no idea what this is, but I found it:

http://www.vectorsite.net/tsawk.html

 

[OutThere]

How about giving us a little more, um, detail?

It's pretty hard to help you when you don't tell us what you're trying to do.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Try man awk in Terminal.app

 

[scan]

How about giving us a little more, um, detail?

It's pretty hard to help you when you don't tell us what you're trying to do.

awk is a command in unix. you can print fields/columns of a files by referring to them as $1 for field 1, $2 for field two, etc.

instead of saying I want to print $1, $2, $3... i just want to print a range
ie: fields 1-5

 

[PatrickF]

You can do this with a for loop in awk. Try the following code:

{
  for (i = 1; i <= 5; i++)
  {
    printf "%s ", $i
  }
  printf "\n"
}

That will print fields 1 to 5 and add a newline after each line.

 

[scan]

You can do this with a for loop in awk. Try the following code:

{
  for (i = 1; i <= 5; i++)
  {
    printf "%s ", $i
  }
  printf "\n"
}

That will print fields 1 to 5 and add a newline after each line.

yeah thats what I ended up doing. I thought maybe there was a built in way to do this. thanks.

 

[d wade]

Um what?

my thoughts exactly, lol