topic Re: print each field in a row in Operating System - Linux

print each field in a row

lawrenzo — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:01:22 GMT

Hi,

I want to use awk to print the output of a command or file which is delimited with a space:

so

command

I would like to print

I appreciate the help.

Thanks

Chris.

Re: print each field in a row

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:08:16 GMT

Hi Chris:

# echo "f1 f2 f3 f4"|awk '{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) {print $i}}'

...or, of course:

# awk '{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) {print $i}}' file

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: print each field in a row

Dennis Handly — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:24:43 GMT

You can also use tr(1) to change blanks to newlines:
command | tr " " "\012"

Re: print each field in a row

Patrick Ware_1 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:16:14 GMT

I want to do exactly the opposite. How can I take the following:

outputa
outputb
outputc

and turn it into this:

outputa outputb outputc

Re: print each field in a row

Dennis Handly — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:58:15 GMT

>Patrick: I want to do exactly the opposite

Your thread is here:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1206784

Re: print each field in a row

Patrick Ware_1 — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:22:15 GMT

I actually made that thread AFTER the post above AFTER I realized that a new thread would be a better way.