Re: Problem with sed and awk

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, [iso-8859-2] Roubí?ek Zden?k (T-Systems PragoNet) wrote: Hello questions Any idea what I am missing? cat test 1;1 2;2 awk -F ';' '{print $1}' 1 2 awk -F ' FS=; {print $1}' 1;1 2 The FS=; is a pattern expression that is used to match the first line of input,

Re: Problem with sed and awk

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, [iso-8859-2] Roubíèek Zdenìk (T-Systems PragoNet) wrote: Any idea what I am missing? You don't say what you are expecting these awk samples to do... cat test There is a command called test, so you should not use that name for test files. 1;1 2;2 awk -F

RE: Problem with sed and awk - SOLVED

Sorry for not very clearly formulated question. I wrote those commands by hand and obviously with lot of errors. awk -F ' FS=; {print $1}' 1;1 2 Don't use the -F option if you are setting the field separator inside the code. This was a mistake. The problem is solved by awk

Re: Problem with sed and awk

Roubíèek Zdenìk (T-Systems PragoNet) said: Any idea what I am missing? cat test 1;1 2;2 awk -F ';' '{print $1}' 1 2 awk -F ' FS=; {print $1}' 1;1 2 awk 'BEGIN{FS=;}{print $1}' test -- Regards, Doug ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list