awk question

[Don Hinton]

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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