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I have a 1gb file and would like to get the third and fifth fields.
The file is delimited by (,):
input file:
luis, jose, jesus atoche, mark, john
1,2,3,4,5
aa 1, bb 2, cc3, dd 4, ee5
output file:
jesus atoche, john
3.5
cc3, ee5
I understand that it can be done with the awk commands.
THANKS!
text-processing awk gawk mawk
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I have a 1gb file and would like to get the third and fifth fields.
The file is delimited by (,):
input file:
luis, jose, jesus atoche, mark, john
1,2,3,4,5
aa 1, bb 2, cc3, dd 4, ee5
output file:
jesus atoche, john
3.5
cc3, ee5
I understand that it can be done with the awk commands.
THANKS!
text-processing awk gawk mawk
New contributor
add a comment |
I have a 1gb file and would like to get the third and fifth fields.
The file is delimited by (,):
input file:
luis, jose, jesus atoche, mark, john
1,2,3,4,5
aa 1, bb 2, cc3, dd 4, ee5
output file:
jesus atoche, john
3.5
cc3, ee5
I understand that it can be done with the awk commands.
THANKS!
text-processing awk gawk mawk
New contributor
I have a 1gb file and would like to get the third and fifth fields.
The file is delimited by (,):
input file:
luis, jose, jesus atoche, mark, john
1,2,3,4,5
aa 1, bb 2, cc3, dd 4, ee5
output file:
jesus atoche, john
3.5
cc3, ee5
I understand that it can be done with the awk commands.
THANKS!
text-processing awk gawk mawk
text-processing awk gawk mawk
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Something in the lines of
awk 'BEGINFS=","; OFS="," print $3, $5' input_file.csv > output_file.csv
Should work
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Try awk -F"," 'print $3","$5' <input file name>
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Something in the lines of
awk 'BEGINFS=","; OFS="," print $3, $5' input_file.csv > output_file.csv
Should work
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Something in the lines of
awk 'BEGINFS=","; OFS="," print $3, $5' input_file.csv > output_file.csv
Should work
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Something in the lines of
awk 'BEGINFS=","; OFS="," print $3, $5' input_file.csv > output_file.csv
Should work
Something in the lines of
awk 'BEGINFS=","; OFS="," print $3, $5' input_file.csv > output_file.csv
Should work
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Try awk -F"," 'print $3","$5' <input file name>
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Try awk -F"," 'print $3","$5' <input file name>
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Try awk -F"," 'print $3","$5' <input file name>
Try awk -F"," 'print $3","$5' <input file name>
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