On 11/1/08, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 06:21:55PM -0700, David Allen wrote: >> My apologies for asking on this list, but I'm stuck without Perl and need >> to use awk to generate a report. >> >> I'm working with a large data set spread across multiple files, but to >> keep things simple, say I have A Very Long String that containing records, >> each delimited by a single space. I need to print those records in >> columnar format, but with only 7 columns per line: >> >> record1 record2 record3 record4 record5 record6 record7 >> record08 record09 record10 record11 record12 record13 record14 >> ... >> >> Should be simple, but I'm getting nowhere. > > $ cat input > col1 col2 col3 col4 col5 col6 col7 col8 col9 col10 col11 col12 col13 col14 > > $ cat output.awk > { > print $1 " " $2 " " $3 " " $4 " " $5 " " $6 " " $7 > print $8 " " $9 " " $10 " " $11 " " $12 " " $13 " " $14 > } > > $ cat intput | awk -f output.awk > col1 col2 col3 col4 col5 col6 col7 > col8 col9 col10 col11 col12 col13 col14
Thanks for the reply, Jeremy, but that approach would require an entirely manual approach, which isn't suitable for what I'm working with. Writing a script that's the same size as the data I'm working with isn't an option. ;-) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"