Re: awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

[Sergio Cuéllar Valdés]

2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello!
>
> I try to use awk to print second field from a text file
> but awk prints a part of 1. field as a 2. field. Why?
>
> aptitude search ~i | awk '{ NF = "2" } { FIELDWIDTHS = " 4 32 " }
> {print $2}' > foltelepitett_debian_csomagok
>
> less foltelepitett_debian_csomagok
>
> ..
> bsdmainutils
> bsdutils
> busybox
> A
> ca-certificates
> checksecurity

Hello,

something like this:   aptitude search ~i | cut -d" " -f2

does this help you ?

Best regards,
Sergio Cuellar

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