On 1/20/06, Don Hinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Alexandre: > > On Friday 20 January 2006 16:59, Alexandre Vieira wrote: > > Hello folks, > > > > I'm making a script to generate some statistics for a batch job and I'm > > stuck with awk. > > > > For example: > > > > %echo 1 2 3 4 5 6 | awk {'print $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6'} > > > > it will output: > > > > 1 2 3 4 5 6 > > > > I want to tokenize a string with another separating char (the : char): > > > > %echo 1:2:3:4:5:6 > > > > and with awk to output: > > > > 1 2 3 4 5 6 > > > > Is there any way of doing this? > > Sure. Here's a link to the online awk documentation section on field > seperators... > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Field-Separators.html#Field-Separators > > ciao... > don > > > > > > Real example: > > > > I have a log file with the following output: > > 2006-01-20 - 20:01:07 - Some text > > 2006-01-20 - 20:01:15 - Some text > > 2006-01-20 - 20:01:38 - Some text > > (...) > > > > and since I'm generating hourly stats I need to match the "20" which is > in > > a string "20:01:07" that is separated by the char ":". > > > > I hope I've been clear. > > > > Thanks for your help. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > -- > Don Hinton <don.hinton at vanderbilt.edu> tel: 615.480.5667 > ISIS, Vanderbilt University skype: donhinton > http://people.vanderbilt.edu/~don.hinton/ > > > Geez I can believe it was that easy. Thank you.
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