Comments on: 7 Powerful Awk Operators Examples (Unary, Binary, Arithmetic, String, Assignment, Conditional, Reg-Ex Awk Operators) http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/02/unix-awk-operators/ Guides, HowTos and Tips for Technology Geeks Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: hamsolo474 http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/02/unix-awk-operators/comment-page-1/#comment-133629 hamsolo474 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:06:47 +0000 http://www.thegeekstuff.com/?p=3163#comment-133629 in awk example 5 $awk -F ':' '$3==$4' passwd.txt gnats:x:41:41:Gnats Bug-Reporting System (admin):/var/lib/gnats:/bin/sh i cant get my line to work awk -F '","|"' "$1 ==1{print $6;}" joblist2.csv im using awk to reference fields in a CSV, i have numbered all the rows and thats what the regular expression is meant to find i cant for the life of me figure out why it doesnt work in awk example 5
$awk -F ‘:’ ‘$3==$4′ passwd.txt
gnats:x:41:41:Gnats Bug-Reporting System (admin):/var/lib/gnats:/bin/sh

i cant get my line to work
awk -F ‘”,”|”‘ “$1 ==1{print $6;}” joblist2.csv
im using awk to reference fields in a CSV, i have numbered all the rows and thats what the regular expression is meant to find
i cant for the life of me figure out why it doesnt work

]]> By: frankhuang http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/02/unix-awk-operators/comment-page-1/#comment-70271 frankhuang Fri, 19 Nov 2010 05:54:02 +0000 http://www.thegeekstuff.com/?p=3163#comment-70271 good, $NF can also be replaced by $0 good, $NF can also be replaced by $0

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