awk question

[Alexandre Vieira]

On 1/20/06, Don Hinton <don.hinton at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Alexandre:
>
> On Friday 20 January 2006 16:59, Alexandre Vieira wrote:
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > I'm making a script to generate some statistics for a batch job and I'm
> > stuck with awk.
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > %echo 1 2 3 4 5 6 | awk {'print $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6'}
> >
> > it will output:
> >
> > 1 2 3 4 5 6
> >
> > I want to tokenize a string with another separating char (the : char):
> >
> > %echo 1:2:3:4:5:6
> >
> > and with awk to output:
> >
> > 1 2 3 4 5 6
> >
> > Is there any way of doing this?
>
> Sure.  Here's a link to the online awk documentation section on field
> seperators...
>
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Field-Separators.html#Field-Separators
>
> ciao...
> don
>
>
> >
> > Real example:
> >
> > I have a log file with the following output:
> > 2006-01-20 - 20:01:07 - Some text
> > 2006-01-20 - 20:01:15 - Some text
> > 2006-01-20 - 20:01:38 - Some text
> > (...)
> >
> > and since I'm generating hourly stats I need to match the "20" which is
> in
> > a string "20:01:07" that is separated by the char ":".
> >
> > I hope I've been clear.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
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>
>
>
Geez I can believe it was that easy. Thank you.

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