Merge pull request #50 from blaszczakphoto/patch-1

awk: how to display only first column of text with
5 years ago · 33c4382f63
parent 63e3b49623 e388d3bfb5
commit 33c4382f63
1 changed files with 3 additions and 0 deletions
--- a/sheets/awk
+++ b/sheets/awk
@ -12,3 +12,6 @@ printf '1 2 3' | awk 'BEGIN {OFS=":"}; {print $1,$2,$3}'

 # search for a paragraph containing string
 awk -v RS='' '/42B/' file
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+# display only first column from multi-column text
+echo "first-column  second-column  third-column" | awk '{print $1}'