Insert column file using awk

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New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Hi, I am having trouble converting a text file. I have been working for this whole day now, still i couldn't make it. I have a text file containing some text : : : bla other text : : : bla any text : : : bla containing 3 columns separated by the ':' sign. Now i want to insert 'this' in the 2nd line after the 2nd column-deliminiter i. How to insert tab at specified column.

I want to insert space between each cut. So the output like: 67 90 Can anybody help? RedHat Commands. OpenSolaris Commands. Linux Commands. SunOS Commands. FreeBSD Commands. Full Man Repository. Advanced Search.

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Viewed 6k times. I need to a add a column in CSV file from an array using awk. For example, input. Hello can we add a colum or columns not a serie of numbers but containing characters or something else thank you.

Hi Guru, i have: time,nooffiles1,nooffiles2, HR,1,2 HR,3,4 i want to become like this time,nooffiles1,nooffiles2,total HR,1,2,3 HR,3,4,7 how to generate this? Thank you very much. Hi Guru, I have a file with " " separator. Really appreciate your help and Thank You. Hi Guru, I'd to update the second column in a file based on the the hour and minute in the first column. The delimiter is ','.

Hi I have a text file with text like [YTS. How can we insert two columns before first column Example: file. Let us discuss in this article. FS contains the file delimiter. Hence, by concatenating the serial number in the beginning of NF-1 ends up in inserting a column before the 2nd last. To remove a column, all the subsequent columns from that position, needs to be advanced one position ahead. The for loop loops on all the fields. Using the ternary operator , every column is concatenated to the variable "f" provided it is not 2nd column using the FS as delimiter.

At the end, the variable "f" is printed which contains the updated record. The column to be removed is passed through the awk variable "x" and hence just be setting the appropriate number in x, any specific column can be removed. Related Posts Widget. Guru Prasad July 24, at AM. Unknown April 30, at PM. Guru Prasad August 15, at PM.

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