From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] awk help; not plan9 matter
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:23:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a560a5d00909170123u345b44b7od37524b5ff1786e1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hello,
simple task.
I want to change the 2nd field on each line of a file, but preserve
the spacing of the lines.
If I do
awk '{$2="hell"; print}' file
the field gets changed, but all the spacing of the lines is gone; i.e.
any space is now just ' ' like this:
1 3 4 8
changes to
1 hell 4 8
while I need
1 hell 4 8.
Any help?
Thanks
Ruda
next reply other threads:[~2009-09-17 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-17 8:23 Rudolf Sykora [this message]
2009-09-17 8:37 ` matt
2009-09-17 8:52 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 9:04 ` matt
2009-09-17 9:12 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 10:42 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 12:35 ` yy
2009-09-17 12:55 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 15:51 ` Lyndon Nerenberg - VE6BBM/VE7TFX
2009-09-17 16:02 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 16:20 ` roger peppe
2009-09-17 16:55 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 17:04 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 17:10 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 17:19 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 17:34 ` roger peppe
2009-09-17 20:33 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 20:46 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 21:09 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 21:22 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 21:24 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 14:16 ` Noah Evans
2009-09-17 14:45 ` roger peppe
2009-09-17 17:03 ` Rudolf Sykora
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