Greg Freemyer pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
All,
I have a CSV like file that uses the octal single byte char 024 (or cntrl-T) as a comma and 0376 as a quote char and .
I need to strip off the last column and discard it, so I thought I could use awk to do it something like.
export FS='\024' awk '{print $1,$2,$3}' my_file > my_output
It seems to still be useing a space (' ') as the field separator. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
I've also tried FS='\\024' FS='\0376\024\0376'
FYI: This may be a one time need and it is only about 500 lines, so using vi to manually do it is acceptable, but the text within the quotes can be very long, so it is hard to work on visually. The good news is that cntrl-T (\024) should never appear within any of the actual fields.
Thanks Greg
In vi move to the column in the line where you need to delete and type 999 then x and it will remove 999 characters (or what ever amount is remaining in the line) from the cursor going to the right. Move down to the next line position the cursor and hit the . (period character) to repeat the last op which should delete 999 characters in the line. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org