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Jun 20th, 2007

awk output separators?

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How can i get awk to separate the output with dashes?
A simple awk '{print $1-$2-$3}' does not work.

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Re: awk output separators?

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awk '{print $1 "-" $2 "-" $3}'

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$ echo "a b c"|awk '$1=$1' OFS="-"
a-b-c
$ echo "a b c"|awk '$1=$1' OFS="-"
a-b-c

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$ echo "a b c"|awk '{print $1,$3}' OFS="-"
a-c
$ echo "a b c"|awk '{print $1,$3}' OFS="-"
a-c

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Got it working, thanks very much, as always

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